Re: How should we handle filenames containing spaces

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>]

> Hi,
> 
>   I have a modified version of the gdb 4.17 debugger built for VxWorks
> PPC, and found a flaw in the "load" command. The syntax of this command
> is 
> 
>           load <filename> <server filename>
> 
> The problem appears when one of the filenames contain some spaces.
> I am about to go and fix the code, but I am wondering how GDB handles
> this sort of problem from the user's point of view. 
> 
> I checked a few other commands that are also taking a filename as an
> argument, but all of them worked because they take only one argument,
> and therefore do not parse it.
> 
> My proposal would be to allow the use of double-quotes. Would that be
> in line with GDB's way of handling these sorts of issues?

BTW, Eli's recently being tweeking commands so that some of them know 
that they take a file as an argument (I don't remember the details). 
That way <tab> would file name expand and add in quotes automatically.

As to your question, I suspect GDB is going to have to bite the bullet 
and, for cases like this, drop the hack where GDB could just pick up the 
rest of the line.

Fernando?

Andrew