Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 10:07:34 +0100 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen vis.3 vis.c Message-ID: <3956.1067591254@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 30 Oct 2003 10:08:50 PST." <20031030180850.GB83046@elvis.mu.org>
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In message <20031030180850.GB83046@elvis.mu.org>, Alfred Perlstein writes: >* Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org> [031030 04:42] wrote: >> phk 2003/10/30 04:41:50 PST >> >> FreeBSD src repository >> >> Modified files: >> lib/libc/gen vis.3 vis.c >> Log: >> Add '#' to the characters VIS_GLOB encodes. This fixes a bug in mtree. > >Feeling dumb... hash is a glob character? No, it is a very common comment separator and you can do a lot of harm to average shell scripts by giving filenames like " # " -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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