Bug#456821: allow whitespace delimiters in incrontab files

2008-03-03 Thread Emmanuel Bouthenot
Hi Andrew, This seems like too strong a restriction on the field delimiters. It's bound to cause some incrontabs to fail, especially if users don't choose to use incrontab(1). It would seem to be easy and useful to allow any combination of whitespace between the fields on each line. It

Bug#456821: allow whitespace delimiters in incrontab files

2007-12-18 Thread Andrew Schulman
retitle 456821 allow whitespace delimiters in incrontab files severity 456821 normal thanks The problem is a little worse than I realized at first. Between the 2nd and 3rd fields of each line, the delimiter has to be exactly one space-- nothing else. If, for example, you put two blank spaces,