Bug#456821: allow whitespace delimiters in incrontab files

2008-03-03 Thread Emmanuel Bouthenot
Hi Andrew, > This seems like too strong a restriction on the field delimiters. It's > bound to cause some incrontabs to fail, especially if users don't choose > to use incrontab(1). It would seem to be easy and useful to allow any > combination of whitespace between the fields on each line.

Bug#456821: allow whitespace delimiters in incrontab files

2007-12-18 Thread Andrew Schulman
retitle 456821 allow whitespace delimiters in incrontab files severity 456821 normal thanks The problem is a little worse than I realized at first. Between the 2nd and 3rd fields of each line, the delimiter has to be exactly one space-- nothing else. If, for example, you put two blank spaces,