Re: win32 short name and IFS='~'

[Naofumi Yasufuku]

Robert,

I really hope this '~' IFS problem will be solved by next stable release.

Regards,
--Naofumi


At Wed, 09 Apr 2003 17:02:55 +0900,
Naofumi Yasufuku wrote:
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> At Fri, 04 Apr 2003 14:21:36 +0900,
> Naofumi Yasufuku wrote:
> > 
> > At Thu, 03 Apr 2003 22:49:49 -0600,
> > Robert Boehne wrote:
> > > 
> > > Naofumi,
> > > 
> > > This doesn't look safe to me at all, I would prefer to change over
> > > to ? rather than change how these delicate shell expansions are handled.
> > > I'm going to try ? and see how it goes.
> > > 
> > 
> > '?' could be used in the command expressions (e.g. $?, ${var:?word}).
> > If you can assure that '?' will never used in the command expressions,
> > it can be used as IFS.
> > 
> 
> I would suggest using a control character, for example, '' (RS:
> Record Separator, 0x1E).
> I believe that '' will never be used in command expressions and it
> doesn't affect m4 macro processing.
> 
> The following patch changes IFS='~' to IFS=''.
> I've tested it under MinGW/Cygwin and Linux using bash.
> 
> Could you please review this patch?
> 
> Regards,
> --Naofumi
> 
> 
> rs-ifs.patch:
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