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From: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
To: "Pierre Muller" <pierre.muller@ics-cnrs.unistra.fr>
Cc: eliz@gnu.org, tromey@redhat.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Fix problems related to Mingw/DJGPP file names containing colons
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2011 20:51:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201108132050.p7DKoxCp014076@greed.delorie.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <005101cc59f9$7e87a790$7b96f6b0$@muller@ics-cnrs.unistra.fr>	(pierre.muller@ics-cnrs.unistra.fr)


>   But there might be some 'exotic' file systems that allow
> both double-quotes and colons as valid characters in their
> filenames.

Any unix-like OS supports that:

$ touch 'foo"bar:grill'
-rw-r--r-- 1 dj games       0 Aug 13 16:46 foo"bar:grill

The only two characters you *can't* put in a file name or subdirectory
name are the NUL character and possibly '/' (I've seen ways to make
filenames with / in them).  Every other character is 100% legal.

>   I am wondering how spaces within filenames are handled 
> inside GDB on mingw32...
>   I just tested... No very well :(

Any unix-like OS also supports spaces in filenames!

$ touch 'foo bar'
-rw-r--r-- 1 dj games       0 Aug 13 16:47 foo bar

These are not new problems, nor are they dos/windows specific.


  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-13 20:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <004901cc5907$85006320$8f012960$%muller@ics-cnrs.unistra.fr>
2011-08-12 17:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-12 17:25   ` Tom Tromey
2011-08-12 17:47     ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-13 10:11       ` Pierre Muller
     [not found]       ` <003c01cc59a1$49cc1520$dd643f60$%muller@ics-cnrs.unistra.fr>
2011-08-13 10:50         ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-13 20:42           ` Pierre Muller
2011-08-13 20:51             ` DJ Delorie [this message]
2011-08-13 21:26             ` Mark Kettenis
2011-08-15 19:29               ` Tom Tromey
     [not found]           ` <28604.9419818029$1313268187@news.gmane.org>
2011-08-15 19:21             ` Tom Tromey
     [not found] <7973.24406817115$1313164244@news.gmane.org>
2011-08-13  1:20 ` asmwarrior
2011-08-12 15:50 Pierre Muller
2011-08-12 17:00 ` Keith Seitz

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