[4657] in Athena Bugs
[wchuang@ATHENA.MIT.EDU: xmh problems with 'delete']
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bug@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sun Apr 1 15:54:23 1990
From: bug@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 90 15:53:35 -0400
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: wchuang@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Here's another one...
(William -- you should know better!)
From: wchuang@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 90 00:16:09 -0500
To: bug@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Subject: xmh problems with 'delete'
Bug report on 'xmh':
(sorry that this isn't in standard format, but sendbug was returning
"icotl: Operation not supported on socket")
In xmh, the 'delete folder' function sometimes does not work. This is
because it tries to do:
rm foldername
instead of:
rm 'foldername'
This can cause some problems, because sometimes users create folders
with special characters in them (such as ^, !, &, etc). These folders
*can* be created, but the shell script which tries to delete them
chokes. For reference, look at logfile #5415 in discuss omail. A user
created a folder named "G^2&POOFEY", and the error messages generated
were from sh.
Should be a quick and easy fix.
William
