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Date:      Wed, 20 Mar 2002 17:59:02 +1100
From:      "Tim J. Robbins" <tim@robbins.dropbear.id.au>
To:        Jens Schweikhardt <schweikh@schweikhardt.net>
Cc:        freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: standards/36076: Implementation of POSIX fuser command
Message-ID:  <20020320175902.A3989@descent.robbins.dropbear.id.au>
In-Reply-To: <20020319185509.B1316@schweikhardt.net>; from schweikh@schweikhardt.net on Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 06:55:09PM %2B0100
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On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 06:55:09PM +0100, Jens Schweikhardt wrote:

> Then I'd consider rcp/scp broken as designed. I think choking on funny
> filenames is a POLA violation.

Fix it then. While you are at it, here are some more for you to fix:
mkdep
shar
yyfix
lp
zcmp
nroff
whatis
cvsbug
sendbug
send-pr
rcsfreeze

and when you're done with those, I will find some more for you.

> If C is the only way to DTRT, so be it. Additional work to get something
> right instead of kludged up (and also violating the Standard!) was never a
> valid argument.

There is way too much overlap with fstat for them to be separate programs,
but the structure of fstat does not present an easy way to make it act
as fuser.

My script does not violate the standard; double quote (char. 34) is not
in the portable pathname character set.


Tim

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