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: Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:37:50 -0800
On Feb 24, 2010, at 07:55, Eugene wrote:
> 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.
I don't think X11.app is something that tries to serve mainstream users, but I do acknowledge that this is a bug that we should fix. Please file a bug report.
> But I'm sure it would take lots of work to inspect all shell scripts
> in OS X and make them "rich-filename-safe".
I don't think there are that many shell scripts which fall into this boat. Atleast in X11, we just have xinitrc and startx.
--Jeremy
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