On 4/25/11 11:47 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 10:56:07 -0700
>> From: Daniel Colascione <dan.colascione@gmail.com>
>> I'd like to remove this path in the trunk and see whether the new
>> 8192-character length limitation is a problem in practice.
> 
> No, I don't think it's a good idea.  8K is too low by any measure; we
> already hit the shell limitations once or twice when related problems
> were discussed.

All right.

> What are the disadvantages of detecting quoted command lines and
> sending only those through the shell?

Besides complexity, none.  I've implemented this approach, making the
necessary changes to cmdproxy.c and subr.el, and updated the trunk.