[Rdiff-backup-bugs] [bug #24100] Can't specify the root directory ('c:\') as src in native win32 binary.

[Anders Hellstrand]

Follow-up Comment #14, bug #24100 (project rdiff-backup):

Hi,

Sorry for beeing absent a few days.

Yes, and no, working from the root folder works with a syntax like
c:programrdiff-backuprdiff-backup-1.2.0-win32.exe c:/ c:level1level2
(where the first c:/ is a valid replacement for c: which currently doesn't
work).

That leads me to think that  isn't a problem and "unescaped" in this
situation as the  between level1 and level2 in this example works. 

I think, but you know the code much better, that the only thing that needs to
be fixed is to modify the procedure so it's allows a trailing  without
generating an "out of range error".

However another problem that will come - sooner or later - is the fact that
Windows doesn't have escapecharacters the way that linux has. Because of that
it makes it hard to use folder names with spaces in if this should be allowed
on the command line. One way of solving this is to optionally allow '
surrounding directory names, but maybe this will lead to unwanted effects in
linux where this is a possible character in a filename. Am I right? Another
way of solving it is to use the globbing file list which don't need to have
this problem.

BR /ahd71

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