Re: mkinstalldirs: directory names with embedded whitespace or newlines

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Tim Van Holder wrote on Tue, May 31, 2005 at 08:31:25AM CEST:
> Noah Friedman wrote:
> > +for arg
> > +do
> > +  qdir=  dir=  qsub=  sub=//   # "//" can't appear normally

`//' is special when at the beginning of a path name under win32.
(Tim probably also hinted at this, but it may be useful to mention this
explicitly.)

> > +  case $arg in
> > +    ./* | ../* | /* ) : ;;
> 
> Don't forget about DOS-style paths - backslashes instead of
> slashes, drive specs, etc.

Regards,
Ralf