From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 90658 invoked by alias); 8 Apr 2016 20:36:04 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 90644 invoked by uid 89); 8 Apr 2016 20:36:04 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=blake, Blake, H*i:sk:871t6gx, H*MI:sk:871t6gx X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Fri, 08 Apr 2016 20:35:53 +0000 Received: from int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.24]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B4BFF2FD for ; Fri, 8 Apr 2016 20:35:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.3.113.199] (ovpn-113-199.phx2.redhat.com [10.3.113.199]) by int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id u38KZqHa012826 for ; Fri, 8 Apr 2016 16:35:52 -0400 Subject: Re: strange behaviour of 'ls' To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <000001d1909e$da5b8b00$8f12a100$@talktalk.net> <72gcgbtd8mfco3n6neb2srnl9fv43s5et4@4ax.com> <57077EB6.1090306@towo.net> <871t6gx7ae.fsf@Rainer.invalid> From: Eric Blake Openpgp: url=http://people.redhat.com/eblake/eblake.gpg Message-ID: <57081627.4030508@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2016 20:36:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.7.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <871t6gx7ae.fsf@Rainer.invalid> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="vIal7Gr2hBQknhlpmVl2HDuh87w8CPbJf" X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-04/txt/msg00179.txt.bz2 --vIal7Gr2hBQknhlpmVl2HDuh87w8CPbJf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-length: 1217 On 04/08/2016 12:52 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: > Thomas Wolff writes: >> Like for grep which now barfs out when a character isn=E2=80=99t recogni= zed in >> the current encoding (and grep doesn=E2=80=99t even provide an environme= nt >> variable to override this mis-feature), these assumedly-modern >> upstream changes are a nuisance. >=20 > You are barking up the wrng tree, please take that upstream. >=20 >> For ls at least, it can be fixed with the environment variable >> QUOTING_STYLE but that isn=E2=80=99t even mentioned in the manual page!%= =C2=A7=E2=86=AF >> =E2=80=93 Poor old Unix tradition fades away. >> >> What about adding >> export QUOTING_STYLE=3Dliteral >> to /etc/profile as a fix? >=20 > No, but you're free to do whatever you wish in /etc/profile.d (or lobby > the coreutils maintiner to provide it with the package, although I'd > suggest that it shouldn't get installed by default). If upstream makes it easy to install such an example profile, I'll likewise make it easy to install in cygwin. Otherwise, I don't see any reason to go out of my way to make cygwin diverge from upstream. --=20 Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org --vIal7Gr2hBQknhlpmVl2HDuh87w8CPbJf Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" Content-length: 604 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 Comment: Public key at http://people.redhat.com/eblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJXCBYnAAoJEKeha0olJ0NqSqIH/3wKj94qepp6oFjtLIpqoPdI 5J09pRpjRmuCO3JI1GlSZn3PMG/s1m75QjEJplkXvr83/eOyZL3oidTDD/rqeP+r NQhH7TtJOz91wV3PUvXiGCcP+6JYBHsoIDmra+AG8lTU/9i1VHvh0aA2acAw9aQk 10yXUZS41kkhKW9DHOoFls8Y0zS6JLB8Yh3QmwBSbY/A0JxM3Y9UGYE2DuVG+Gwy s4p88WPj6oUhicpdd8B8jNkN4K0IrJIiVdwGvhI7kw9bTQXUTgtOyAPY/Wsxvs4r T7FgLdeMCYI5PJJ2C5PcpVG5L/wii62GxrRDes06F76K1a1BGvYjgs4B6ABZtoI= =9cah -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --vIal7Gr2hBQknhlpmVl2HDuh87w8CPbJf--