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

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>

Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 04:35:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in versions 25.0.50, 24.3

Done: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 18745 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18745: 
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 04:38:47 +0100

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On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 5:01 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:

> If not, then please try digging deeper, because the unmodified test
> work OK for me (not on Windows 10).

Well, mystery solved. It's not a bug or change in Windows 10, it's an
incompatibility between CMD.EXE and TCC.EXE (the TakeCommand shell). I
usually run everything from inside TakeCommand, so COMSPEC points to
TCC.EXE, not CMD.EXE.

Not sure how to fix it. I suppose "nothing to do, just run the tests with
the right COMSPEC" is an option. OTOH, the test is supposed to check for a
CreateProcess "deficiency". And certainly 4DOS/4NT/TCC is a quite popular
shell.

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