svn commit: trunk/busybox

[Rob Landley]

On Thursday 11 May 2006 4:33 pm, Rich Felker wrote:
> > Files are are allowed to have any character except NUL and the directory
> > separator in them. Paths can have any character but NUL.  Therefore, the
> > logical character to use as a separator when you want reliable behavior,
> > no
>
> However the relevant tools for dealing with filenames from scripts
> process _text files_ which cannot contain NUL. Adding GNU extensions
> that require tools to somehow deal with NUL (which greatly complicates
> the implementation of these tools and adds to bloat) is hardly
> worthwhile, considering that someone who makes a filename containing
> \n is just an idiot.

You know, I think part of the reason I'm ignoring what you have to say is 
attitude.  Not "X makes it harder to build on macintosh", but "X is stupid 
because I don't like it".  Random example:

> If you work correctly with relative paths

And of course your One True Way is the only correct way to do things, 
regardless of building out of tree and so on.

Your posts are littered with the assumption that the way you want to do things 
is some kind of socratic ideal.  If you stop doing that, I might start caring 
about what you have to say again.

Rob
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