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Re: spaces in filenames should be a crime.

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.
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