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Re: [RFC] Fix problems related to Mingw/DJGPP file names containing colons
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- Cc: pierre dot muller at ics-cnrs dot unistra dot fr, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 20:47:28 +0300
- Subject: Re: [RFC] Fix problems related to Mingw/DJGPP file names containing colons
- References: <004901cc5907$85006320$8f012960$%muller@ics-cnrs.unistra.fr> <83vcu2wnvj.fsf@gnu.org> <m34o1mlezb.fsf@fleche.redhat.com>
- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
> 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.