Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla-update-ids lacks support for filenames with spaces

[Charles Duffy]

On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 20:41, Miles Bader wrote:
> Cameron Patrick <address@hidden> writes:
> > | It requires running a new tla process for each name though, which is not
> > | happy.
> >
> > Perhaps adding a 'tla escape --pipe' or similar would solve this?
> 
> That also sounds messy to deal with, at least for me -- both reading
> _and_ writing to a subprocess via pipes is traditionally not easy to do.

Eh? I can't speak for your favored scripting tools, but Python's Popen3
class (in the popen2 module) makes it trivial.

I'd like to have this facility available for those of us who *do* use
toolage that can take easy advantage of it, even if that's not quite
everyone.