Re: Snow Leopard 10.6.2 can't run 'X11.app' (with system log)
Re: Snow Leopard 10.6.2 can't run 'X11.app' (with system log)
- Subject: Re: Snow Leopard 10.6.2 can't run 'X11.app' (with system log)
- From: Eugene <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:55:30 -0600
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On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 05:56:27PM CST, Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Feb 23, 2010, at 11:16, Michael Leung wrote:
> >
> > And just curious, will X11 support the directory like something
> > 'Volumes/Michael's Home/Users/Michael/' in the future?
>
> I will try to fix it, but you're looking for a world of hurt if you
> include quotes, double quotes, or spaces in a path name and actually
> expect things to work.
That's a reasonable warning from a Unix point of view. But ordinary
users (Mac and Windoze) do not know to avoid quotes and whitespace
characters in their file/directory names. And they should not know,
because rich filenames are a feature they expect to keep forever.
I think any Unix flavor that tries to serve mainstream users must
support this feature.
But I'm sure it would take lots of work to inspect all shell scripts
in OS X and make them "rich-filename-safe".
--
Eugene
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