On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 04:17:54PM -0700, Cary Jamison wrote: >Phil Edwards wrote: >> I'm aware of the restrictions, and I will bet long odds that spaces >> show up in filenames far more often than colons (or any other >> punctuation commonly used as a separator in pathname lists) are used. >> I've not changed my opinion that updatedb is behind the times and is >> needlessly complicating things for admins, but I also don't expect >> that opinion to change anybody else's mind -- this bug has been >> reported before, against other distros, and gets rejected because "you >> shouldn't use spaces in filenames under Linux," how quaint. > >This opinion by Linux users has to change if they want Linux to become a >more mainstream os. Everyday users are going to use spaces in filenames >through the Linux desktop, just as it has become more common on the Windows >desktop. > ><$.02
Personally,Idon'treallyunderstandwhatthebigdealishere. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/