Re: SegFault running "ls -l" after Microsoft Patch Day

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Dec 20 12:50, incog wrote:
> On 2015-12-20 12:41, Sam Edge wrote:
> >On 18/12/2015 13:06, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote:
> >>and (of all things!) contain blanks,
> >
> >* rant mode on *
> >
> >What's wrong with blanks?
> >
> >The OS calls don't give a monkey's chuff so long as they're given
> >null-terminated C-strings. Tools like find, xargs etc. have options to
> >cope.
> >
> >The biggest problem is that there are a lot of sloppily written shell
> >scripts out there that don't properly quote substitutions or that use $*
> >instead of "$@" or that use command substitution where they should be
> >using pipes and "xargs" and "read". That's the fault of the scripts, not
> >the OS/emulation layer.
> >
> >* rant mode off *
> 
> Oh ... you know, I understand Rainer's sentiment ...
> 
> https://www.cygwin.com/ starts with:
> 
> CYGWIN
> 
> Get that ___Linux___ feeling - on Windows

Dunno about you, but I have lots of files with spaces in them on Linux,
especially files connected with GUI stuff, themes, etc.


Corinna

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