[RFC] strip out trailing quote character in file paths?

Alexander Belchenko bialix at ukr.net
Wed Dec 5 13:12:56 GMT 2007


Ian Clatworthy пишет:
> Alexander Belchenko wrote:
> 
>> IIRC, bzr does not allow " character in paths? Or am I wrong here?
>> Windows does not allow such character in paths when someone try to
>> create new file or directory (actually list of forbidden characters is \
>> / :  * ? " < > | ).
>>
>> I want to provide patch to automatically fix such broken paths inside
>> bzr. Should I emit warning when " automatically stripped?
>> Does such patch should be win32-specific or for all OSes? I know
>> on Linux user may use almost all characters in filenames, but bzr anyway
>> has some limitations here.
> 
> This sounds like a bad idea to me. If the problem is in the file
> manager, then hacking workarounds into tools to accommodate it is fixing
> the symptom, not the cause. If someone makes mistakes in a script and
> includes a trailing ", we really ought to complain about an unknown
> path, not just implicitly strip it.
> 
> If you really, really want to do this, please make it a plug-in instead
> of a core change.

OK, point taken.



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