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Re: [RFA2] Follow-up decode_line_1 crash
- To: Fernando Nasser <fnasser at redhat dot com>
- Subject: Re: [RFA2] Follow-up decode_line_1 crash
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il>
- Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 18:37:07 +0200 (IST)
- cc: "Martin M. Hunt" <hunt at redhat dot com>, Keith Seitz <keiths at cygnus dot com>, gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Fernando Nasser wrote:
> We still have to address Eli's issue with quoted '"' that may appear in
> filenames (can they?).
On Unix, sure they can. DOS and Windows specifically disallow " from
appearing in a file name.
I agree that plumbing the immediate bug, even without resoolving the case
of '"', is the right thing to do, because a quote in a file name is a
very rare case, even more rare than a space.