Filenames with blanks

Wayne Davison wayned at users.sourceforge.net
Sat Aug 24 12:33:00 EST 2002


On Sat, 24 Aug 2002, jw schultz wrote:
> I just ran a quick test and found that the rsync process on
> the server (via ssh) had sshd as it's immediate parent.
> This means that a shell was not invoked and any command-line
> interpolation, et-al was done by sshd itself.

No, sshd uses "$SHELL -c [COMMAND]".  A good shell uses exec() to run
the command when -c is used, so the shell is just turning into the rsync
process after it does its thing.

..wayne..




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