Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Mysterious gdb behavior. From: Robert Collins To: derbyshire@globalserve.net Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com In-Reply-To: <3D439956.10056.53A4C2DE@localhost> References: <3D43020A.30440.5155C2C9@localhost> <3D439956.10056.53A4C2DE@localhost> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-xzi8QGm5dd/zXcEozZ7R" Date: 28 Jul 2002 21:20:53 +1000 Message-Id: <1027855254.5866.32.camel@lifelesswks> Mime-Version: 1.0 --=-xzi8QGm5dd/zXcEozZ7R Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 2002-07-28 at 21:12, Paul Derbyshire wrote: > OK. Is anyone going to actually suggest a solution here? And don't=20 > say "rename the directory", I don't imagine renaming the home=20 > directory to something other than your user name is going to do=20 > anything but cause more trouble. I won't say what you don't want to hear. You might consider searching the friendly archives, because they *tell* you what is worse - a home dir with spaces or a home dir w/o spaces. =20 > Really, spaces in path names shouldn't bother any part of the system.=20 should !=3D doesn't. I agree, it sucks. Still, unless you want to patch all the broken software out there (which BTW includes pure win32 programs last time I checked), then you need to deal with it one way or another. > Wherever path names with spaces are handed off to shells or whatever=20 > they should be quoted, that's all.=20 *Please*, research before asserting. Because non-cygwin1.dll linked programs don't unquote arguments this solution actually sucks worse than the current status quo. > If path names that went into=20 > scripts, parameter lists, or whatever were defensively quoted there=20 > would never be an issue. Untrue, as indicated above. > If it really can't be made to work, then=20 > perhaps the system should automatically use the short version of=20 > names with spaces in them?=20 Those short names do not always exist - you'll need a fallback for those cases. It's an interesting idea though, perhaps you'd like to contribute a patch. I'd be happy to give you pointers on what do look at to create such a patch. Rob --=-xzi8QGm5dd/zXcEozZ7R Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEABECAAYFAj1D05UACgkQI5+kQ8LJcoLD9QCfUmNjQiGUrvlE9L7ztt9TD/ej hioAn3ndS/jpTEL5o3CE/lXSa9KGq3Wl =+Q0/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-xzi8QGm5dd/zXcEozZ7R--