Re: [RFC] Fix problems related to Mingw/DJGPP file names containing colons

Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-12T17:47:59Z

> From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
> Cc: Pierre Muller <pierre.muller@ics-cnrs.unistra.fr>,
> gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 11:24:56 -0600
>
> Eli> Thanks for working on this, but I don't like the idea of quoting file
> Eli> names internally just to work around this problem.
>
> Why?

It's ugly and fragile, because the original name could be quoted.