Re: quotearg.c's shell_quoting_style and MinGW

2012-05-06 Thread John Cowan
Bruno Haible scripsit: > How does % need to be quoted, then? Can you find out, please? This info > would be useful both for Paul's proposal and for mine. Strings of the form %FOO% in cmd.exe commands are expanded iff FOO is an existing environment variable; otherwise, the string is left alone. Al

Re: uuencode: multi-bytes char in remote file name contains bytes >0x80

2011-07-05 Thread John Cowan
could just make uuencode work on all possible file > names, even on the ones where POSIX does not require any particular > behavior). Agreed. -- John Cowanco...@ccil.orghttp://ccil.org/~cowan The whole of Gaul is quartered into three halves. --Julius Caesar

Re: uuencode: multi-bytes char in remote file name contains bytes >0x80

2011-07-05 Thread John Cowan
Say what? The name of a file is not a byte sequence in the file. I don't see how it follows that because a file is a text file, its name is a character string in some locale. -- John Cowan http://ccil.org/~cowanco...@ccil.org In might the Feanorians / that swore the unforgotten oath

Re: Fwd: Re: error.c: "Unknown system error" should report errno value

2007-10-03 Thread John Cowan
and tricking the program into doing something unsavory. Chroot has required root privs since it was introduced in 4.2BSD. -- After fixing the Y2K bug in an application: John Cowan WELCOME TO[EMAIL PROTECTED] DATE: MONDAK, JANUARK 1, 1900 h