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

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Dave,

* Dave Korn wrote on Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 07:01:59PM CEST:
> 
>   As the subject line says, mdate-sh can get badly confused if there are
> spaces in the textual version of the uid or gid.

Yep:
<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.)

It would surely be helpful to know whether we can assume -n to work
portably and avoid the test (we test for -L which is POSIX, too).

Cheers,
Ralf