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Re: How to set a breakpoint in file, which name has spaces?

> Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 15:55:40 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> 
> > Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 22:26:55 -0700
> > From: Nikolay Molchanov <Nikolay.Molchanov@Sun.COM>
> > Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
> > 
> > I hope we will never need to set a breakpoint in a file,
> > which name has double quotes :-)
> 
> MS-Windows filesystems don't allow file names with double quotes, so
> you needn't worry about that.

But POSIX systems do allow it:

$ touch \"
$ ls -l \"
-rw-r--r--   1 kettenis  kettenis          0 Aug 12 13:41 "
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