[PATCH] modify run_parts to accept filenames with "."

Bernhard Reutner-Fischer rep.dot.nop at gmail.com
Sat Jan 18 12:39:01 UTC 2014


On 17 January 2014 19:00:18 Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Friday 17 January 2014 09:43:46 Amy Fong wrote:
> > This modifies the debianutil run-parts recognizes files with "." in
> > its name
>
> the debian run-parts tool specifically does not recognize the "."
>
> ... the names must consist entirely of ASCII upper- and lower-case letters, 
> ASCII digits, ASCII underscores, and ASCII minus-hyphens. However, the name 
> must not begin with a period.
>
> i would point out that the current code does not seem to ignore files that 
> start with a "."

That would be a bug. The "However..." is (or at least was) redundant since 
only [-a-zA-Z_] are valid, IIRC.



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