Re: mdate-sh borks on uid/gid containing a space

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,

On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 12:40:12AM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
> On 29 March 2007 00:26, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.automake.patches/2730/focus=2740>
> > Eric's patch seems to indicate that line 92 needs changed, too.
> > (I haven't tested any on w32.)
> 
>   I don't quite understand that myself; ISTM that having -n in $ls_command
> should do the job for both cases.

A wild guess:

Though the current situation is this (quoting Eric):

$ \ls -ld /
drwxrwx---+ 14 eblake Users 0 Feb  2 07:58 /
$ \ls -lLd doc/m4.texinfo
-rw-r--r-- 1 eblake Domain Users 221922 Mar  1 14:50 doc/m4.texinfo

it might be possible that even the user or group owner of / would
have a blank it its name.  (With Cygwin, one never knows.)

So it is safer to use -n with ls /, too.

Just guessing, I'm not a Cygwin user.

        Stepan Kasal