On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 09:20:40PM +0200, Damir Perisa wrote:
Wednesday 08 August 2007, eliott wrote: | ok. What the hell? | | This is ridiculous. | I think it is great that damir is off to fix all the software that | deals with escape characters poorly, but in the mean time, I feel | a need to find a resolution that isn't np-hard. | | It must be my development/engineering background. | Silly me being all practical. | | If nobody has any objections, I will change the iso filenames to | *not* include the ' character. I will probably have to contact the | guy who posted the torrents as well. It will be a hassle, but this | is so ludicrous that I am willing to do some extra legwork to fix | it. | | Any objections?
but seriously: where else are the problems? besides graveman that is in a major rewrite atm? are we (speaking broadly for all software projects) not able to handle any filename chars in 2007?
obviously graveman is broken. A typical example of not escaping special chars, when invoking shell commands. Maybe this is also a security related bug (if graveman can be invoked as handler for iso files). I prefer not changing the original name (i think there are referring links by now). Jürgen