Subject: Re: bug#18745: 24.3; MS Windows, `call-process-shell-command' fails on `shell-quote-argument'ed bat file with quoted args

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 09:10:42 +0300

> From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>,  [email-masked]
> Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 20:38:38 -0400
> 
> I remember reports that starting commands with a space in its name
> is pretty much impossible.

That's an entirely different problem, the reason being how Windows
normalizes file names.  It has nothing to do with CreateProcess
quirks.