GNU bug report logs - #33344
26.1; doc-view bounding-box recognition doesn't work on path names with spaces

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Message #14 received at 33344 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 33344 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, trent2 <at> web.de
Subject: Re: bug#33344: 26.1;
 doc-view bounding-box recognition doesn't work on path names with
 spaces
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2018 13:12:40 -0500

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> Thanks, but call-process won't DTRT if the default-directory is
> remote, would it?

s/call-process/process-file then

> And I wonder how many more subtle incompatibilities will such a change
> cause.  All that because we need to run a single string through
> shell-quote-argument (and not just enclose it in double quotes)?  Is
> it really worth it?

External processes should not be called through a shell unless they
really need that, and I see no evidence for that here.

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