Re: User-relative paths

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Oct 24, 2005, 01:37 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0510231836020.10477@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <435C3427.30803@zytor.com>

On Sun, 23 Oct 2005, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> 
> If this is meant to dequote shell-quoted paths, it really should be modal.

It _only_ accepts quoted strings, so it "is" modal. It has one mode: string. And it's a bitch about enforcing it, too (it just dies if it wasn't one).

		Linus

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