From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 18745@debbugs.gnu.org
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 17:30:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAM-tV-_FF7QkggL2+i1ebyCKD27bLHFQwA-TWfw89dLpgbUn=g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83oatc2bca.fsf@gnu.org>
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> GNU Make overcomes this by detecting these cases, and invoking
> CreateProcess in a special way (NULL as the first argument), see the
> function process_begin there, around line 710 of sub_proc.c in the GNU
> Make sources. If you can come up with a way to do the same in Emacs,
> by some suitable patch to cmdproxy.c, such a patch will be welcome
> (assuming either the patch is small, or you will agree to sign legal
> papers necessary for submitting substantial patches to FSF projects).
I'll take a look (btw I have already signed for Emacs).
> Failing that, I can suggest a workaround: use the short 8+3 alias of
> the file name with whitespace. You can obtain the short alias of any
> existing file's name by calling w32-short-filename. Then you won't
> need to quote the batch file name.
s/w32-short-filename/w32-short-file-name/
That works regardless if the program is a bat or exe which will make
things simpler, thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-16 21:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-16 4:33 bug#18745: 24.3; MS Windows, `call-process-shell-command' fails on `shell-quote-argument'ed bat file with quoted args Noam Postavsky
2014-10-16 6:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-16 13:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-16 13:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-16 16:28 ` Noam Postavsky
2014-10-16 17:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-16 21:30 ` Noam Postavsky [this message]
2014-10-22 1:12 ` Noam Postavsky
2014-10-22 17:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-23 1:33 ` Noam Postavsky
2014-10-23 15:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-25 9:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-25 14:03 ` Noam Postavsky
2014-10-16 20:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-16 21:50 ` Noam Postavsky
2014-10-17 0:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-17 6:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-17 6:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-27 11:49 ` bug#18745: Juanma Barranquero
2015-10-27 19:14 ` bug#18745: Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-27 23:24 ` bug#18745: Juanma Barranquero
2015-10-28 16:01 ` bug#18745: Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-29 3:38 ` bug#18745: Juanma Barranquero
2015-10-29 16:17 ` bug#18745: Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-29 17:22 ` bug#18745: Juanma Barranquero
2015-10-30 14:25 ` bug#18745: Juanma Barranquero
2015-10-30 14:55 ` bug#18745: Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-30 17:09 ` bug#18745: Juanma Barranquero
2015-10-30 20:10 ` bug#18745: Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-31 23:20 ` bug#18745: Juanma Barranquero
2015-11-01 17:49 ` bug#18745: Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-01 18:29 ` bug#18745: Juanma Barranquero
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