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

Roland Illig roland.illig at gmx.de
Mon May 29 08:00:21 UTC 2006


Pavel Tsekov wrote:
> 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.

The quoting hid one bug that appeared due to one variable being used, 
which had never been defined before. I think it has been fixed upstream.

Roland



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