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[RFC] Allow '!' in program paths
- From: Klee Dienes <kdienes at apple dot com>
- To: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 15:48:06 -0800
- Subject: [RFC] Allow '!' in program paths
2002-02-06 Klee Dienes <klee@apple.com>
* fork-inferior.c (fork_inferior): Add '!' to the list of
characters that need to be quoted when building a string for the
shell. Quote '!' specifically with a backslash, since CSH chokes
when trying to evaluate "str!str".
Index: fork-child.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/Darwin/Commands/GNU/cygnus/src/gdb/fork-child.c,v
retrieving revision 1.9
diff -u -r1.9 fork-child.c
--- fork-child.c 2001/11/29 00:18:44 1.9
+++ fork-child.c 2002/02/06 22:53:11
@@ -204,6 +204,7 @@
switch (*p)
{
case '\'':
+ case '!':
case '"':
case '(':
case ')':
@@ -235,6 +236,8 @@
{
if (*p == '\'')
strcat (shell_command, "'\\''");
+ else if (*p == '!')
+ strcat (shell_command, "\\!");
else
strncat (shell_command, p, 1);
}