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From:
Michael G Schwern
Date:
July 4, 2001 10:11
Subject:
Re: VMS-style command quoting and MakeMaker
Message ID:
20010704131133.B20340@blackrider
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 11:28:11AM +0100, Mike Guy wrote:
> And there could be some fun issues with filenames which contain '"'.

Blarg.


> And the "right" fix to all this is to ensure that these things are
> processed by the multi-arg form of system(), so we don't need to
> think about shell quoting at all.

Well, this is actually stuff that goes into the Makefile.  For the
most part.


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Michael G. Schwern   <schwern@pobox.com>    http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/
Perl6 Quality Assurance     <perl-qa@perl.org>	     Kwalitee Is Job One
...and I pull out the Magnum from under the desk where I keep it in case
someone laughs at a joke that's so dry it's got a built in
water-fountain, and blow the lot of them away as a community Service.
	-- BOFH

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