Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Pipes?

[Tom Lord]

    > From: address@hidden

    > On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 12:49:42PM -0800, Tom Lord wrote:
    > >         4) write xxargs which can do unescaping for you

    > Isn't this the tail wagging the dog?  

No, it's just something that should have happened ca. 1991.

    > Until the whole world is pika'd and hackerlabbed, it'd be nice
    > to have tla play nicely with the existing xargs.

Not at a huge cost, no.   Yes, definately at very minor costs.

    > Are zero terminated paths inherently incompatible with
    > hackerlab escaping?

No, they're just a dumb idea.   Not ever data type enjoys the "no null
characters" benefit of unix filenames.

-t