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From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: spaces in filenames should be a crime.
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 11:01:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e62b0a3d-0d3a-05bc-9967-884f942e9e5f@eastlink.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170328161025.GA8511@fujitsu.shahaf.local2>

On 28/03/17 09:10 AM, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> Ray Andrews wrote on Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 07:29:24 -0700:
>> ls is a passive recipient, there is no 'request'.  Yes?
> Yes:
>
>       1	% strace -fe execve sh -c 'ls -d /*'
>       2	execve("/bin/sh", ["sh", "-c", "ls -d /*"], [/* 47 vars */]) = 0
>       3	Process 8717 attached
>       4	[pid  8717] execve("/bin/ls", ["ls", "-d", "/bin", "/boot", "/dev", "/etc", "/home", "/initrd.img", "/lib", "/lib64", "/lost+found", "/media", "/mnt", ...], [/* 47 vars */]) = 0
>
> That execve() line shows the 'argv' array in ls's main() will be.  You
> can see that it has no asterisks.
>
It must be frustrating for the list that after several years I still 
make these DOSy mistakes.   The above code is most educational, thanks.


  reply	other threads:[~2017-03-28 18:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-26 20:22 Ray Andrews
2017-03-26 20:57 ` Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov
2017-03-26 21:18 ` Daniel Shahaf
2017-03-26 22:41   ` Ray Andrews
2017-03-26 23:20     ` Bart Schaefer
2017-03-27  0:47       ` Ray Andrews
2017-03-27  1:11         ` Chris ccb
2017-03-27  1:45           ` Ray Andrews
2017-03-27  1:44     ` Martijn Dekker
2017-03-27  2:17       ` Ray Andrews
2017-03-27 18:53         ` Jesper Nygårds
2017-03-27 23:18           ` Mikael Magnusson
2017-03-28  0:46             ` Ray Andrews
2017-03-28  9:08               ` Martin Richter
2017-03-28 14:29                 ` Ray Andrews
2017-03-28 16:10                   ` Daniel Shahaf
2017-03-28 18:01                     ` Ray Andrews [this message]
2017-03-28 18:38                   ` Martijn Dekker
     [not found]               ` <60a213ad-6cb3-bef4-9e61-f2c1611a5e71__30788.3357666016$1490694707$gmane$org@gmx.de>
2017-03-29 11:27                 ` Stephane Chazelas
2017-03-29 14:50                   ` Ray Andrews
2017-03-29 15:21                     ` Peter Stephenson
2017-03-29 16:21                       ` Ray Andrews
2017-03-30 17:36                         ` Bart Schaefer
2017-03-28 16:42           ` Matthew Martin
2017-03-26 21:24 ` Peter Stephenson

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