On Fri, 23 Aug 2013, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > Find -print0 > > And replacing read by read -r -d $'\0' is safer but I do not know if it is > portable. > > Or xargs but we need to fork for each file and we get the portability > problem of find print0. > > What do you prefer ?
find -print0 is fine, dpkg-deb already uses it. read -d is likely a problem however (I believe it's bash specific). I don't think that I have any good answer if we want to support newlines in filenames. But it's probably not an important use case as dpkg itself doesn't cope very well with it. dpkg-deb builds it fine and it installs fine but when you do "dpkg -L" you get this back (with a single "hello\nworld" file): $ dpkg -L foo /. /hello /world (This is because the /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list files are line based) So I would go ahead ignoring this specific problem. Otherwise you could write that specific part in perl but it would be a regression to reintroduce perl in dpkg itself. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Discover the Debian Administrator's Handbook: → http://debian-handbook.info/get/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
