Re: [RFC] Allow '!' in program paths

[Michael Snyder <msnyder@redhat.com>]

Klee Dienes wrote:
> 
> 2002-02-06  Klee Dienes  <klee@apple.com>
> 
>          * fork-inferior.c (fork_inferior): Add '!' to the list of
>          characters that need to be quoted when building a string for the
>          shell.  Quote '!' specifically with a backslash, since CSH chokes
>          when trying to evaluate "str!str".

Seems sane to me.  Wanna check it in?

> 
> Index: fork-child.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/Darwin/Commands/GNU/cygnus/src/gdb/fork-child.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.9
> diff -u -r1.9 fork-child.c
> --- fork-child.c        2001/11/29 00:18:44     1.9
> +++ fork-child.c        2002/02/06 22:53:11
> @@ -204,6 +204,7 @@
>            switch (*p)
>              {
>              case '\'':
> +           case '!':
>              case '"':
>              case '(':
>              case ')':
> @@ -235,6 +236,8 @@
>              {
>                if (*p == '\'')
>                  strcat (shell_command, "'\\''");
> +             else if (*p == '!')
> +               strcat (shell_command, "\\!");
>                else
>                  strncat (shell_command, p, 1);
>              }