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 11:31:15 -0500
I realized that, too. Again, my apologies.
j
On 25 Feb 2010, at 11:22, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
> 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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