SegFault running "ls -l" after Microsoft Patch Day

[Houder]

On 2015-12-20 14:20, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Dec 20 13:55, Houder wrote:
>> On 2015-12-20 13:18, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> >On Dec 20 12:50, incog wrote:
>> >>On 2015-12-20 12:41, Sam Edge wrote:
>> >>>On 18/12/2015 13:06, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote:
>> >>>>and (of all things!) contain blanks,
>> >>>
>> >>>* rant mode on *
>> >>>
>> >>>What's wrong with blanks?
>> >>>
>> >>>The OS calls don't give a monkey's chuff so long as they're given
>> >>>null-terminated C-strings. Tools like find, xargs etc. have options to
>> >>>cope.
>> >>>
>> >>>The biggest problem is that there are a lot of sloppily written shell
>> >>>scripts out there that don't properly quote substitutions or that use $*
>> >>>instead of "$@" or that use command substitution where they should be
>> >>>using pipes and "xargs" and "read". That's the fault of the scripts, not
>> >>>the OS/emulation layer.
>> >>>
>> >>>* rant mode off *
>> >>
>> >>Oh ... you know, I understand Rainer's sentiment ...
>> >>
>> >>https://www.cygwin.com/ starts with:
>> >>
>> >>CYGWIN
>> >>
>> >>Get that ___Linux___ feeling - on Windows
>> >
>> >Dunno about you, but I have lots of files with spaces in them on Linux,
>> >especially files connected with GUI stuff, themes, etc.
>> 
>> :-) Oh dear, must be my age ... I never create files with spaces in 
>> them
>> ... I like to keep things simple, just like the guys that created 
>> Unix.
>> 
>> (sorry, could not stop myself :-)))
> 
> I didn't say I created them myself.  Or in same case I did but didn't
> intend to.

Yes Corinna, I "heard" you the first time ...

... as I said, it must be my __old__ age. Let us stop at that.

Regards,
Henri

> 
> E.g., in one desktop environment I created a subdir with entries
> pointing to a script "foo" called with a machine name as parameter.
> I called the entries "foo machine1", "foo machine2", etc.  Turns out,
> those entries were converted to files called "foo machine1.desktop",
> "foo machine2.desktop", ...
> 
> Lots of documents downloaded from the net have spaces in them, unless
> you rename every single one of them, which I can't be bothered.
> 
> KDE created a file
> ~/.kde/share/apps/desktoptheme/Arezzo/widgets/mock przelacznik 
> pulpitow.svg
> I don't even know the language.
> 
> ~/.config/gnome-boxes/sources/QEMU Session
> ~/.mozilla/firefox/Crash Reports
> ~/.thunderbird/xyz.default/Mail/Local Folders/Unsent Messages
> ~/android-sdk-linux_86/SDK Readme.txt
> /usr/local/MegaRAID Storage Manager
> /usr/share/cmake/Help/generator/Sublime Text 2.rst
> /usr/share/doc/python-setuptools/CHANGES (links).txt
> /usr/share/doc/stix-fonts/STIX Font License 2010.pdf
> /usr/share/doc/verne-backgrounds-single/CC-BY-SA 3.0
> 
> Even the git repo has them:
> 
> ~/src/git/t/t4135/add-with backslash.diff
> ~/src/git/t/t4135/add-with quote.diff
> ~/src/git/t/t4135/add-with spaces.diff
> ~/src/git/t/t4135/add-with tab.diff
> 
> 
> Corinna


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