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: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:22:15 -0800
And it's not the space that's the problem. It's the quote that is the problem.
--Jeremy
On Feb 25, 2010, at 08:16, John Francini wrote:
> Actually, never mind -- a reply to a message further down reminded me that the boot disk is always mounted on /, not /Volumes/partition-name.
>
> My bad. Sorry!
>
> john
>
> 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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