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24.3; MS Windows, `call-process-shell-command' fails on `shell-quote-argument'ed bat file with quoted args

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From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 18745 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: 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

On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> 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.

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