Re: Opening files that start with %

[Bernhard Herzog <bh intevation de>]

"chen.shengqi" <chen shengqi connet com tw> writes:

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <jgotts linuxsavvy com>
[...]
> > In message <y5wn0so94yt fsf icon devel redhat com>, Havoc Pennington writes:
> > 
> > >Shane OConnor - Sun Ireland <Shane Oconnor Sun COM> writes:
> > 
> > >> It's just been noticed that any file that starts with the '%'
> > >> character will not open in nautilus, gedit or netscape. As all the
> > >> gconf xml files start with the '%' character I was wondering if this
> > >> was a deliberate thing?
> > 
> > >No, it's a bug.
> > 
> > Looks like a bug in gnome-vfs:
> > 

[rearranging a bit to retain the example]

> > GnomeVFSResult  result;
> > GnomeVFSFileInfo *info;
> > 
> > result = gnome_vfs_get_file_info("%gconf.xml", info,
> >  (GNOME_VFS_FILE_INFO_GET_MIME_TYPE | GNOME_VFS_FILE_INFO_FOLLOW_LINKS));
> > 
> > fails.  gnome_vfs_get_file_info() does two things:
 
> I didnot tested it, but I think if you write "%gconf.xml" as
> "\%gconf.xml" , maybe it can work, just put a '\' before '%'.

Shuldn't that be "%25gconf.xml"? According to the docs
gnome_vfs_get_file_info takes a URI and % is used for hex-escapes in a
URI. So it's not a bug in gnome-vfs but in the applications that don't
quote local filenames properly.

  Bernhard

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