Re: Opening files that start with %

[jgotts linuxsavvy com]

Technically speaking, yes, but since this bug is occurring in several
applications, wouldn't it be cleaner to add the appropriate URI fix-up code to
a library?

John

In message <6q3cu9foch fsf abnoba intevation de>, Bernhard Herzog writes:

>"chen.shengqi" <chen shengqi connet com tw> writes:
>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: <jgotts linuxsavvy com>
>[...]
>> > In message <y5wn0so94yt fsf icon devel redhat com>, Havoc Pennington write
>s:
>> > 
>> > >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.

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