spaces in pathnames

[Russell Whitaker]

I think spaces in path names is a BAD idea.
Breaks too many things in the command line environment.
    Russ

On Sun, 29 Jun 2008, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:

>
> On Jun 29, 2008, at 19:18, Roland Mainz wrote:
>
>> Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
>>>
>>> So I just pushed a patch to xinit that addresses some issues with
>>> spaces in pathnames.  One issue remains, and I'm not sure if
>>> there's a
>>> clean way to address it.  At first, I thought I could do something
>>> like this:
>>>
>>> -    serverargs=${serverargs}" -auth "${xserverauthfile}
>>> +    serverargs=${serverargs}" -auth '"${xserverauthfile}"'"
>
>> AFAIK on any POSIX-like shell a simple...
>> -- snip --
>> IFS=''
>> -- snip --
>> ... should fix the problem.
>
> Yeah, but then we don't get separation when we do want it:
>
> ~/src $ mya="some thing with spaces"
> ~/src $ myb="other spaces"
> ~/src $ myargs="-auth "$mya
> ~/src $ ./printargs "$myb" $myargs
> argv[0] = ./printargs
> argv[1] = other spaces
> argv[2] = -auth some thing with spaces
>
> So... back to eval as the only thing I see working, which I don't like
> (which is why I didn't commit it and actually only mentioned it as an
> afterthought to my original email).
>
> --Jeremy
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