[comp.lang.perl] xargs security

worley@compass.uucp (Dale Worley) (10/25/90)

Why doesn't someone upgrade the kernel so it rejects whitespace in
file names?  It's completely rediculous that files can have nearly
unprintable names!

Dale Worley		Compass, Inc.			worley@compass.com
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sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) (10/26/90)

worley@compass.uucp (Dale Worley) writes:

|Why doesn't someone upgrade the kernel so it rejects whitespace in
|file names?  It's completely rediculous that files can have nearly
|unprintable names!

Space is a printing character.
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