On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 12:28 AM, Pádraig Brady <[email protected]> wrote: > * src/ls.c (gobble_file): Disable the optimization to avoid quoting > if the symlink target itself needs quoting. This was introduced > with the quoting alignment adjustments in v8.25-106-g01971c0 > * tests/ls/symlink-quote.sh: Add a test. > * tests/local.mk: Reference the test. > * NEWS: Mention the fix.
> +++ b/NEWS ... > + ls now quotes symlink targets when consistently. Previously it may not > + have quoted the target name if the link name itself didn't need quoting. > + [bug introduced in coreutils-8.26] News nit: you probably want to remove that stray "when": s/when // Fix looks fine. Thanks!
