From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Apr 19 23:24:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA13436 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 23:24:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA13314; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 06:24:03 GMT (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA05049; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 23:24:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) To: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami) cc: brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: porting question regarding AfterStep-1.4.4 In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 19 Apr 1998 21:40:38 PDT." <199804200440.VAA10469@baloon.mimi.com> Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 23:24:06 -0700 Message-ID: <5045.893053446@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I believe Jordan will fix that in a nanosecond. :) Don't be too sure - I'd have to essentially try and copy the string to a buffer and quote all the metacharacters myself since system() isn't going to like the result otherwise. I basically have to figure out what all the shell metachars are and how to quote them without breaking stuff horribly in the process. Blah. :( Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message