From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#18745: 24.3; MS Windows, `call-process-shell-command' fails on `shell-quote-argument'ed bat file with quoted args Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 09:50:02 +0300 Message-ID: <83ppds4ig5.fsf@gnu.org> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1413442292 25578 80.91.229.3 (16 Oct 2014 06:51:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 06:51:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 18745@debbugs.gnu.org To: Noam Postavsky Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 16 08:51:24 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XeeuB-0002ZP-R8 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 08:51:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48762 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xeeu9-0000UP-Bo for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 02:51:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44123) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xeetx-0000U8-W0 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 02:51:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xeetq-0005lj-H4 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 02:51:09 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:53596) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xeetq-0005lb-DP for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 02:51:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Xeetp-0002Bi-RN for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 02:51:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 06:51:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 18745 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 18745-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B18745.14134422058325 (code B ref 18745); Thu, 16 Oct 2014 06:51:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 18745) by debbugs.gnu.org; 16 Oct 2014 06:50:05 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45160 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Xeesv-0002AC-2t for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 02:50:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout24.012.net.il ([80.179.55.180]:35843) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Xeess-00029g-BO for 18745@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 02:50:03 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout24.012.net.il by mtaout24.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NDI00D00XQE5D00@mtaout24.012.net.il> for 18745@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 09:43:35 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout24.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NDI00DE8YONF320@mtaout24.012.net.il>; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 09:43:35 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:94580 > Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 00:33:55 -0400 > From: Noam Postavsky > > >From emacs -Q, evaluating > > (call-process-shell-command (shell-quote-argument "c:/path with > space/foo-bar.bat") nil t t (shell-quote-argument "x y")) > > or the equivalent > > (call-process-shell-command "\"c:/path with space/foo-bar.bat\"" nil > t t "\"x y\"") > > gives > > 'c:/path' is not recognized as an internal or external command, > operable program or batch file. > > It also fails for paths without a space: > > (call-process-shell-command "\"c:/path-without-space/foo-bar.bat\"" > nil t t "\"x y\"") > > gives > > 'c:/path-without-space/foo-bar.bat" "x' is not recognized as an > internal or external command, > operable program or batch file. This is a Windows misfeature, not an Emacs bug: the CreateProcess primitive fails like that when passed a command that is a batch file. To work around, try using cmd.exe as the command, and the batch file with arguments as its arguments, with "/c" prepended.