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Date:      Fri, 31 Oct 2003 10:07:34 +0100
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen vis.3 vis.c 
Message-ID:  <3956.1067591254@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 30 Oct 2003 10:08:50 PST." <20031030180850.GB83046@elvis.mu.org> 

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In message <20031030180850.GB83046@elvis.mu.org>, Alfred Perlstein writes:
>* Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org> [031030 04:42] wrote:
>> phk         2003/10/30 04:41:50 PST
>> 
>>   FreeBSD src repository
>> 
>>   Modified files:
>>     lib/libc/gen         vis.3 vis.c 
>>   Log:
>>   Add '#' to the characters VIS_GLOB encodes.  This fixes a bug in mtree.
>
>Feeling dumb... hash is a glob character?

No, it is a very common comment separator and you can do a lot of harm
to average shell scripts by giving filenames like "  # "

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