GNU bug report logs - #6674
PATCH: fix assignment of grep-find-use-xargs on Windows/MS-DOS

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Óscar Fuentes <ofv <at> wanadoo.es>

Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 03:51:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Óscar Fuentes <ofv <at> wanadoo.es>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #35 received at 6674 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Óscar Fuentes <ofv <at> wanadoo.es>
Cc: lekktu <at> gmail.com, 6674 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#6674: PATCH: fix assignment of grep-find-use-xargs
	on	Windows/MS-DOS
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:41:23 +0300

> From: Óscar Fuentes <ofv <at> wanadoo.es>
> Cc: lekktu <at> gmail.com,  6674 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:51:39 +0200
> 
> The issue is that "cmd.exe -c" seems to have a 1024 char limit when the
> command contains a pipe (my guess is that the limit applies separatelly
> to every command on the pipe chain) and cmdproxy.c prepends "cmd.exe -c"
> to the command when it has a pipe, redirection, etc.

If that is true, we could implement the pipes in cmdproxy.  It's not
difficult.
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