GNU bug report logs - #25388
ls-quotes: kills existing scripts reading "ls" -1 as input

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: L A Walsh <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>

Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2017 03:53:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #74 received at 25388 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: L A Walsh <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>
To: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>, Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>,
 25388 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25388: Bug in ls, kills existing scripts reading "ls" -1
 as input
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2017 13:23:52 -0800


Eric Blake wrote:
> On 01/09/2017 01:53 PM, L A Walsh wrote:
>>> And POSIX merely codified existing practice (this is nothing new - it
>>> has been this way since the 70's)
>> ---
>>     Not anymore.
>>
>>     Breaking "rm -fr ." wasn't an existing practice except
>> at BSD-using dists (like BSD & SunOS).  While Solaris was SysV, since it
>> was bought up, it has changed.
> 
> Please quit trying to change the topic.
---
You said that posix codified existing practice and that it has been
this way since the 70's.  This is not true.

You are making overly broad statements, or, more likely, 
using indeterminant pronouns.
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