Re: SegFault running "ls -l" after Microsoft Patch Day

[Houder <houder at xs4all dot nl>]

On 2015-12-20 13:18, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Dec 20 12:50, incog wrote:
> > On 2015-12-20 12:41, Sam Edge wrote:
> > >On 18/12/2015 13:06, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote:
> > >>and (of all things!) contain blanks,
> > >
> > >* rant mode on *
> > >
> > >What's wrong with blanks?
> > >
> > >The OS calls don't give a monkey's chuff so long as they're given
> > >null-terminated C-strings. Tools like find, xargs etc. have options to
> > >cope.
> > >
> > >The biggest problem is that there are a lot of sloppily written shell
> > >scripts out there that don't properly quote substitutions or that use $*
> > >instead of "$@" or that use command substitution where they should be
> > >using pipes and "xargs" and "read". That's the fault of the scripts, not
> > >the OS/emulation layer.
> > >
> > >* rant mode off *
> >
> > Oh ... you know, I understand Rainer's sentiment ...
> >
> > https://www.cygwin.com/ starts with:
> >
> > CYGWIN
> >
> > Get that ___Linux___ feeling - on Windows
>
> Dunno about you, but I have lots of files with spaces in them on Linux,
> especially files connected with GUI stuff, themes, etc.

:-) Oh dear, must be my age ... I never create files with spaces in them
... I like to keep things simple, just like the guys that created Unix.

(sorry, could not stop myself :-)))

Henri

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