From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Quote file name args to start-process-shell-command?
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 07:02:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1GXyKK-0002od-Mp@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85vempolrc.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (message from David Kastrup on Thu, 12 Oct 2006 12:45:43 +0200)
> Cc: lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
> Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 12:45:43 +0200
>
> Clearly, ARGS is (except on VMS) _not_ a list of separate arguments,
> but rather strings pasted together with spaces.
Yes, as any API to `system' should do.
> So I don't understand how to apply your remark
> "start-process-shell-command is not system(3).".
That remark should be understood as follows:
start-process-shell-command is a wrapper around `system', but it isn't
`system' itself. So it doesn't need to accept only one string, but
eventually it will concatenate them all.
Apologies for being unclear.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-12 11:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-11 20:32 Quote file name args to start-process-shell-command? Lennart Borgman
2006-10-12 4:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-12 6:08 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-10-12 7:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-12 7:44 ` David Kastrup
2006-10-12 8:15 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-10-12 8:24 ` David Kastrup
2006-10-12 9:08 ` Andreas Schwab
2006-10-12 8:49 ` Andreas Schwab
2006-10-12 9:27 ` David Kastrup
2006-10-12 9:41 ` Andreas Schwab
2006-10-12 9:49 ` David Kastrup
2006-10-12 9:53 ` Andreas Schwab
2006-10-12 10:02 ` David Kastrup
2006-10-12 11:23 ` Andreas Schwab
2006-10-12 11:30 ` David Kastrup
2006-10-12 18:50 ` Stephen Leake
2006-10-12 19:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-10-13 15:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-13 18:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-10-13 19:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-13 20:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-10-14 13:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-14 16:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-10-14 18:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-16 0:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-10-16 4:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-16 6:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-10-16 9:22 ` Andreas Schwab
2006-10-16 18:46 ` Richard Stallman
2006-10-15 17:12 ` Richard Stallman
2006-10-12 10:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-12 11:01 ` David Kastrup
2006-10-12 11:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-12 22:38 ` Richard Stallman
2006-10-13 0:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-10-13 6:02 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-10-13 8:31 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-10-13 19:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-12 10:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-12 10:45 ` David Kastrup
2006-10-12 11:02 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2006-10-12 11:25 ` David Kastrup
2006-10-12 11:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-12 11:24 ` Andreas Schwab
2006-10-12 11:37 ` David Kastrup
2006-10-12 11:45 ` Andreas Schwab
2006-10-12 14:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-10-12 14:53 ` David Kastrup
2006-10-12 15:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-10-12 18:11 ` Stuart D. Herring
2006-10-12 19:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-10-12 20:27 ` Stuart D. Herring
2006-10-13 11:19 ` Richard Stallman
2006-10-12 22:38 ` Richard Stallman
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