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Re: quotearg.c's shell_quoting_style and MinGW
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: quotearg.c's shell_quoting_style and MinGW |
Date: |
Sun, 06 May 2012 20:29:12 +0300 |
> Date: Sun, 06 May 2012 10:13:13 -0700
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden, address@hidden
>
> > There was never such an implementation of popen on any non-Posix
> > platform (nor can there be, at least on Windows, because of the need
> > to support native file names with backslashes).
>
> The idea here is not to reimplement popen from scratch in gnulib,
> or to have gnulib popen support every feature that POSIX requires.
> The idea is only to have a popen wrapper that works assuming that
> its argument is quoted for the POSIX shell, using quotearg.
> Such arguments have a simple format that can easily be converted
> to mingw shell format. Once this simple conversion is done, the
> wrapper call the real mingw popen.
You will break gobs of programs that use gnulib, if you implement
this.
- Re: quotearg.c's shell_quoting_style and MinGW, (continued)
- Re: quotearg.c's shell_quoting_style and MinGW, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/05/06
- Re: quotearg.c's shell_quoting_style and MinGW, Bruno Haible, 2012/05/06
- Re: quotearg.c's shell_quoting_style and MinGW, John Cowan, 2012/05/06
- Re: quotearg.c's shell_quoting_style and MinGW, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/05/06
- Re: quotearg.c's shell_quoting_style and MinGW, Bruno Haible, 2012/05/06
Re: quotearg.c's shell_quoting_style and MinGW, Paul Eggert, 2012/05/06
- Re: quotearg.c's shell_quoting_style and MinGW, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/05/06
- Re: quotearg.c's shell_quoting_style and MinGW, Bruno Haible, 2012/05/06
- Re: quotearg.c's shell_quoting_style and MinGW, Bruno Haible, 2012/05/06
- Re: quotearg.c's shell_quoting_style and MinGW, Paul Eggert, 2012/05/06
- Re: quotearg.c's shell_quoting_style and MinGW, Bruno Haible, 2012/05/06
Re: quotearg.c's shell_quoting_style and MinGW, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/05/06
Re: quotearg.c's shell_quoting_style and MinGW, Bruno Haible, 2012/05/06
Re: quotearg.c's shell_quoting_style and MinGW, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/05/06
Re: quotearg.c's shell_quoting_style and MinGW, Bruno Haible, 2012/05/06
new module 'system-quote', Bruno Haible, 2012/05/08