From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [gmane.emacs.bugs] Emacs fails to start properly if the current working directory is on a vfat or ntfs filesystem Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:07:25 +0000 Message-ID: <47C3D6CD.6050300@gnu.org> References: <877igvl4dn.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <47C180F9.2060901@gnu.org> <47C2014A.4090702@gnu.org> <47C35614.6020407@gnu.org> <87pruk9ygb.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1204016875 13912 80.91.229.12 (26 Feb 2008 09:07:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:07:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, Stefan Monnier , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 26 10:08:20 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JTvnP-0008HT-NI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:08:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JTvmt-0002f2-LO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Feb 2008 04:07:47 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JTvmp-0002ex-Os for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Feb 2008 04:07:43 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JTvmn-0002ed-MS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Feb 2008 04:07:42 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JTvmn-0002ea-HF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Feb 2008 04:07:41 -0500 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JTvmf-0008LY-1e; Tue, 26 Feb 2008 04:07:33 -0500 Original-Received: from mk-outboundfilter-3.mail.uk.tiscali.com ([212.74.114.23]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JTvme-0005ZE-D1; Tue, 26 Feb 2008 04:07:32 -0500 Original-X-Trace: 48683916/mk-outboundfilter-1.mail.uk.tiscali.com/F2S/$ACCEPTED/freedom2Surf-customers/83.67.23.108 X-SBRS: None X-RemoteIP: 83.67.23.108 X-IP-MAIL-FROM: jasonr@gnu.org X-IP-BHB: Once X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAAtlw0dTQxds/2dsb2JhbAAIrEY X-IP-Direction: OUT Original-Received: from i-83-67-23-108.freedom2surf.net (HELO [127.0.0.1]) ([83.67.23.108]) by smtp.f2s.tiscali.co.uk with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 26 Feb 2008 09:07:30 +0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) In-Reply-To: <87pruk9ygb.fsf@stupidchicken.com> X-detected-kernel: by mx20.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:90490 Archived-At: Chong Yidong wrote: > What do you mean by quoted-printable? > Given that we already use % as an escape character, and that = could be mistaken for an environment variable assignment, I think URL encoding might be more suitable. But the differences between the two are trivial. > I was thinking that we could instead change all unsafe chars into the > same character, e.g. an underscore. I don't think there is much risk > of name clashing (in the first place, we already use make-temp-file to > generate a unique filename.) > We already have code in place to do the escaping, so moving to a less comprehensive solution does not save us any effort.