Anthony Liguori wrote: > Jamie Lokier wrote: >> So instead of consistency, you like the idea of using different >> quoting rules for the monitor than for command line arguments? >> > > Your proposal breaks Windows in a catastrophic way. It's almost certain > that all existing front-ends/scripts will stop working after such a change. Breakage of existing users is surely a no-go, so '\'-escaping remains taboo for Windows. > > Or you have to quote differently on Windows which means you throw > consistency out the Window. I'm still not convinced that we actually need that much consistency here. This is *mostly* about path names, and path names are not directly portable between Windows and the rest anyway. Jan
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