Re: How to set a breakpoint in file, which name has spaces?

[Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>]

Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl> writes:

>> Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 15:55:40 +0300
>> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
>> 
>> > Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 22:26:55 -0700
>> > From: Nikolay Molchanov <Nikolay.Molchanov@Sun.COM>
>> > Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
>> > 
>> > I hope we will never need to set a breakpoint in a file,
>> > which name has double quotes :-)
>> 
>> MS-Windows filesystems don't allow file names with double quotes, so
>> you needn't worry about that.
>
> But POSIX systems do allow it:

s/POSIX/UNIX/

> $ touch \"
> $ ls -l \"
> -rw-r--r--   1 kettenis  kettenis          0 Aug 12 13:41 "

Just because it is possible does not mean it is useful.  Once you start
using quotes or other meta characters in file names gdb will be the least
of your problems.

Andreas.

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