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author | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2015-10-27 13:13:59 +0000 |
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committer | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2015-10-27 17:24:54 +0000 |
commit | 6796698c9945d87236ffcc939137d0919ef04931 (patch) | |
tree | dd843e7808186887c2959451e34fdd7f42783359 /NEWS | |
parent | 106d4bf159a97b573d6479473fa38216fb8bfada (diff) | |
download | coreutils-6796698c9945d87236ffcc939137d0919ef04931.tar.xz |
all: quote string arguments in error messages
These strings are often file names or other user specified
parameters, which can give confusing errors in
the presence of unexpected characters for example.
* cfg.mk (sc_error_quotes): A new syntax check rule.
* src/*.c: Wrap error() string arguments with quote().
* tests/: Adjust accordingly.
* NEWS: Mention the improvement.
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
-rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -28,6 +28,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- ** Improvements + All utilities now quote user supplied arguments in error strings, + which avoids confusing error messages in the presence of '\r' chars etc. + dircolors now supports globbing of TERM entries in its database. For example "TERM *256color*" is now supported. |