On 2018-10-27 07:28:26 -0700, Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 23/10/18 17:54, Paul Eggert wrote: > > On 10/22/18 1:44 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > >> On the behavior, there's still the issue concerning = and &. > > > > Yes, you're right, there's no need to quote = with -b. > > The reason \= is quoted with -bF is to distinguish socket > names that end in =. An edge case indeed, though the issue > is not particular to '=', but all of the classifier chars. > > Now we could quote with -F only if these chars are at the end, > though I'm not sure that complexity is warranted.
In any case, this form of quoting incorrect with -b, as \= is invalid in ISO C. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
