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Well, just because make is faulty, doesn't mean linux isn't too ;)

Spaces -- ok. But there is absolutely no use case for allowing near arbitrary byte sequences in filenames, it causes no end of trouble, and it would have been trivial to fix in a non-disruptive manner ages ago (mount -o allowreallydumbfilenames, off by default).



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