bug#62096: 30.0.50; find-dired, dired-goto-file and spaces

[Po Lu]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Cc: 62096@debbugs.gnu.org, stephen.berman@gmx.net, drew.adams@oracle.com
>> Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2023 15:02:44 +0100
>> From:  Manuel Giraud via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>> 
>> This patch was produce on the main branch but FWIW I think it should
>> also go on emacs-29.
>
> I'm okay with installing this on emacs-29, since macOS is supposed to
> be a variant of BSD.
>
> But please don't change the values for any other systems, not on the
> release branch anyway.
>
> Thanks.

IICU filenames with embedded spaces and newlines are not supposed to
work without GNU ls, which implements a `--dired' option just for Emacs.
Admittedly that isn't the best situation, but it is not a regression
from Emacs 28.

Would someone please explain what the problem here is?