On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:17:54 +0200
Frank Gruellich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> * Santiago M. Mola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 15. Apr 08:
> > On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Marijn Schouten (hkBst)
> > Currently is use ':' as sed delimiter when paths are involved. I'd
> > also like to hear from you about proper delimiters if you think ':'
> > is not safe enough.
> > 
> > AFAIK, the only corner case which would make this fail would be
> > Windows paths (C:/gentoo-prefix).
> 
> Even though it's probably stupid to use it, but ':' is a valid
> character within a path.  I've no solution for this problem, however.

Valid maybe (but then pretty much every character is valid), but colon
is used as path delimiter in many other contexts (e.g. $PATH) so it's
rather unlikely to be used.

Marius
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