From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Fixing Windows and DOS command line argument quoting
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 16:58:35 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DB537BB.1090205@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DB53599.8040703@gmail.com>
On 25/04/2011 16:49, Daniel Colascione wrote:
> 1. we can have cmdproxy level-two-dequote the supplied command line
> before giving it to CreateProcess, or
>
> 2. we can remove optimization described above and have cmdproxy always
> run the command interpreter.
>
> I favor the second option: cmd starts very quickly, and we don't save
> much time by bypassing it.
IIRC, this "optimisation" isn't about saving time, but about avoiding
limitations in cmd.exe where possible.
Another possibility is to make the decision whether to use cmd.exe or
not based on the presence of "level 2" metacharacters rather than "level 1".
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-25 8:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-25 2:09 Fixing Windows and DOS command line argument quoting Daniel Colascione
2011-04-25 6:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-25 8:49 ` Daniel Colascione
2011-04-25 8:58 ` Jason Rumney [this message]
2011-04-25 9:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-25 9:22 ` Daniel Colascione
2011-04-25 17:56 ` Daniel Colascione
2011-04-25 18:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-26 10:44 ` Daniel Colascione
2011-04-26 17:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-25 9:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-25 18:24 ` Daniel Colascione
2011-04-25 18:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2011-04-27 0:58 Ben Key
2011-04-27 1:25 ` Daniel Colascione
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