Phil Edwards wrote: > I'm aware of the restrictions, and I will bet long odds that spaces > show up in filenames far more often than colons (or any other > punctuation commonly used as a separator in pathname lists) are used. > I've not changed my opinion that updatedb is behind the times and is > needlessly complicating things for admins, but I also don't expect > that opinion to change anybody else's mind -- this bug has been > reported before, against other distros, and gets rejected because "you > shouldn't use spaces in filenames under Linux," how quaint.
This opinion by Linux users has to change if they want Linux to become a more mainstream os. Everyday users are going to use spaces in filenames through the Linux desktop, just as it has become more common on the Windows desktop. <$.02 Cary -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
