PATCH: Support "@file"

Nick Clifton nickc@redhat.com
Thu Oct 6 11:45:00 GMT 2005


Hi DJ,

>>>> --extra-switches-from-file=<file>

> I don't see the need, and neither DJGPP nor MSVC support it (they both
> support @file).

OK.

> If you want to play with expandargv, I'd rather the effort go into
> supporting find's -print0 option, by detecting NULs in the file and
> switching to NUL-delimited arguments instead of whitespace (and
> skipping the quoting logic too).  This feature would give us a
> security layer for managing files that the usual shell quoting
> doesn't.

Another one for my Copious Free Time(tm) then. :-)

Cheers
   Nick



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