GNU bug report logs - #8541
start-process fails when both the program path and an argument contain spaces

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Ivar Rummelhoff <ivarru <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 10:25:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>
To: 8541 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#8541: start-process fails when both the program path and an argument contain spaces
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 12:29:41 -0400

I believe this was fixed along with #18745 (while searching for it I
happened to stumble upon this one).

A nicer workaround suggested by Eli on that bug is to use w32-short-file-name:

    (start-process "name" "buffer"
                   (w32-short-file-name "D:\\tmp\\xxx yyy\\foo.bat")
                   "yada yada")
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