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Re: [PATCH 0/10] Whitespace robustness patch series
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: [PATCH 0/10] Whitespace robustness patch series |
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Tue, 04 Dec 2007 14:43:15 -0800 |
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Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> writes:
> but I wouldn't know how to make it foolproof. First, if the space is
> missing after `>' and $file begins with `>', then append mode is used.
> But also, if $file begins with whitespace, that is just ignored anyway.
I'm a bit out of context here, but can't you prepend "./" to the file
name, if the file begins with " " or ">" or any other troublesome
character?
> - If the build tree name contains whitespace, the manpages come out
> wrongly. The synopsis says
> | dir with spaces/build/bin/ifnames [OPTION] ... [FILE] ...
I assume that's a bug already, right? If so, it doesn't hurt to put
the fix off until later.
Thanks for taking this on.
- Re: [PATCH 4/10] Proper config.status --file/--header and $srcdir escaping., (continued)
- [PATCH 5/10] Fix testsuite program wrapper for whitespace in `pwd`., Ralf Wildenhues, 2007/12/04
- [PATCH 6/10] * tests/m4sh.at (LINENO): Quote $0., Ralf Wildenhues, 2007/12/04
- [PATCH 7/10] Quote $abs_top_srcdir in tests., Ralf Wildenhues, 2007/12/04
- [PATCH 8/10] * tests/semantics.at (AC_PATH_PROGS_FEATURE_CHECK): Skip test if `pwd` contains whitespace., Ralf Wildenhues, 2007/12/04
- [PATCH 9/10] Do not pass top_srcdir to configure scripts in testsuite., Ralf Wildenhues, 2007/12/04
- [PATCH 10/10] * tests/torture.at (srcdir): Fix quoting., Ralf Wildenhues, 2007/12/04
- Re: [PATCH 0/10] Whitespace robustness patch series,
Paul Eggert <=
- Re: [PATCH 0/10] Whitespace robustness patch series, Jim Meyering, 2007/12/07
- Re: [PATCH 0/10] Whitespace robustness patch series, Benoit Sigoure, 2007/12/16