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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: User-relative paths
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Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:
> 
> 
>>It's incomplete and almost certainly buggy and generally broken, but 
>>here's somethign that you _could_ install as "git-shell", and then put 
>>that as somebodys shell in /etc/passwd, and it's a start. A very rough 
>>start.
>>
>>Somebody else gets to test it out ;)
>>
>>+		if (c != '\'') {
>>+			*dst++ = c;
>>+			continue;
>>+		}
>>+		switch (*++src) {
>>+		case '\0':
>>+			*dst = 0;
>>+			return arg;
>>+		case '\\':
>>+			if (*++src == '\'' &&
>>+			    *++src == '\'') {
>>+				*dst = '\'';
>>+				continue;
>>+			}
>>+		/* Fallthrough */
>>+		default:
> 
> I think this misses HPA's addition to minimally suppport csh
> braindamage (bang bang).
> 

If this is meant to dequote shell-quoted paths, it really should be modal.

	-hpa