bug in cmdproxy.c

[Klaus Berndl]

The original version of cmdproxy is based on the fact that the "spawn"
system-call can deal with forward-slashes in path-arguments (IMHO not a good
and save approach!), but it can´t if a path-argument was quoted! Therefore we
must make all non-switch arguments canonical (means converting / to \).

Example: With the original version of cmdproxy the following would not work,
because mm-mailcap-command quotes the 'file' argument and does not convert
forward-slashes to backslashes (if this should be within this function is
another topic).

,----
|   (call-process shell-file-name nil
|                 (setq buffer
|                       (generate-new-buffer "*mm*"))
|                 nil
|                 shell-command-switch
|                 (mm-mailcap-command
|                  method file (mm-handle-type handle)))
`----

(This for example is a real live example from the function
'mm-display-external' in Gnus 5.8.8)

With my patched version this works! My patch can deal with all shell-commands,
because only arguments not beginning with '/' or '-' or beginning with "//"
(for network-pathes) will be converted!
Therefore all shell-commands like

,----
| "d:/some/program.exe /S:soem-switches -s:some-other-switches
|                      \"D:/some/file.ext\" //host/path/to/file"
`----

will work.

The only change if have made is the cmdline-converting in lines 603-625!

OK, here is the patched version:

cmdproxy.c
Description: patched version of cmdproxy.c

Ciao,
Klaus

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