Re: Fixing swap1_stop

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Aug 13,  7:57pm, idleroux%fastmail.fm@localhost ("Ian D. Leroux") wrote:
-- Subject: Re: Fixing swap1_stop

| On Wed, 9 Aug 2017 03:38:20 -0400 christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)
| wrote:
| > I think it is better to modify mount to either pass a format string
| > to it or to quote the pathnames so that the output is predictable.
| 
| Here's my second attempt at the latter solution (the first attempt
| involved writing a utility functional called shquote which gcc
| subsequently informed me was already in the standard library. oops).
| It's intended to leave the output completely unchanged in all "normal"
| cases, but to quote the mount point (or the device file) if either
| filename contains white space or shell operators.
| 

I am not sure if it is a good idea to change the output in the default
case. Perhaps we should add a flag to make the behavior explicit. But
at that point (if we add a flag), we might as well make the new output
convenient to parse.

christos