Quoting of variables in fsusage.m4 and ls-mntd-fs.m4

Pavel Tsekov ptsekov at gmx.net
Fri May 26 06:34:07 UTC 2006


On Fri, 26 May 2006, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:

> Hi Roland,
>
> You didn't add a change log entry for your quote fixes(?), only a CVS
> log entry. Could you add one?
>
> Are these variables really worth quoting? They seem to be either "yes"
> or "no". If they are worth quoting you might want to report this to the
> coreutils maintainers.

Heh. I wrote the same mail to Roland just after I saw his changes, but 
off-list. He didn't bother to respond though. IMO the quoting doesn't make 
a lot of sense but in some obscured cases it could help i.e. setting those
variables manually via the environment.

Pavel "The Prick" Tsekov




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