Re: dchroot scripts

[Kyle Rose <krose@krose.org>]

> It's a matter of _where_ you want (for instance) $variable to be
> interpreted. You can argue it either way; my feeling is that when su
> strcat's the arguments togther, it's going out of it's way to *lose*
> information that was given to (how the arguments _were_ split apart,
> which is vitally important when you've got spaces in filenames from an
> ls *, for instance), which then the shell has to undo.

Problem is that by changing the behavior now, you break thousands and
thousands of scripts.  For that reason it isn't going to happen, and
for the same reason I would argue it shouldn't.  If you want that
behavior, I recommend cookedm_su. :)

Cheers,
Kyle