[tex-live] Whitespace in file name with all but plain TeX fails

[George White]

Quoting Hans Hagen <pragma at wxs.nl>:

> Akira Kakuto wrote:
> 
> >>Indeed, I confirm that 
> >>  pdfetex 'v er.tex'
> >>works in TL 2004 and fails with the current TL pdfetex (both
> >>i386-linux).  The error message is: 
> >>
> >>! I can't find file `"v er.tex"'.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >On Windows, pdfetex "v er.tex" is OK.
> >Please check
> >char *makecfilename(strnumber s) in utils.c,
> >where I find #ifdef WIN32.
> >  
> >
> the windows version already supported "file name" (and some more things like
> url inclusion)
> 
> the question is: where does this tak eplace, in the kpse library of in
> pdftex; if i remember right, kpse now does handle it too, so maybe the two
> mechanisms interfere in the unix branch 

If it helps, etex built on linux (FC4) using the current pdftex-1.30.3-2.2
sources  does not have the bug (pdfetex from the same sources and configure run
does).

I didn't have time to learn much with gdb, other than to confirm that access()
is called with the quoted form of the filename.

-- 
George N. White III
Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia