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: John Francini <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:14:31 -0500
One question is whether or not this would break on a *default* install of OS X, which sets the hard drive name to "Macintosh HD".
Yes, there's no single quote, but there's still that nasty embedded whitespace...
j
On 24 Feb 2010, at 14:37, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
>
> 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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