bug#43789: 27.1; Dired cannot handle file which name contains linebreak

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> I think this would have unwanted effect on other control characters.
> ISTR this was discussed in the past, but I cannot find that discussion
> at the moment.

I experimented a bit with two files, one with a newline and one with a
C-b character:

The latter works in dired by default, while the former doesn't.

Adding b to the switches gives me:

The C-b file still works, and the one with newline also works.

Does anybody remember what the unwanted effect was?

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