On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 11:50:54AM -0500, Richard Cobbe wrote: > On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 11:03:24AM -0500, Mark J. Reed wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Richard Cobbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<SNIP> > > > In any case, I'll submit a bug/feature request about this to the upstream > > > folks soon. > > > > Bug. Not being able to specify pathnames with spaces is a defect, not > > a missing feature. > > I know that and you know that, but in the past I've run into Unix folks > whose reaction to this kind of problem is to say "don't use spaces in > pathnames then." This doesn't appear to be irony, either. > > Bug submitted: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?22467>. We'll see > what happens. To follow up: the findutils maintainer acknowledged it as a problem and suggested incorporating a fix into the planned new version of updatedb, a C prototype of which already exists. See the link above for further details. Richard ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
