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Re: Quote file name args to start-process-shell-command?
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Quote file name args to start-process-shell-command? |
Date: |
Thu, 12 Oct 2006 07:41:18 -0400 |
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 13:25:00 +0200
>
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>
> >> Clearly, ARGS is (except on VMS) _not_ a list of separate arguments,
> >> but rather strings pasted together with spaces.
> >
> > Yes, as any API to `system' should do.
>
> start-process-shell-command is neither documented as an API to
> `system', nor implemented by using `system'.
It clearly produces the same effect; the details don't matter. And I
think that any reasonable API to invoke a shell command would work in
the same way.
> > That remark should be understood as follows:
> > start-process-shell-command is a wrapper around `system',
>
> No, it isn't. It does something similar
You are nitpicking.
> but the similarity to what `system' does is not documented
There's no need to document that; we don't refer to C functions for
other primitives, at least not as a matter of principle.
- Re: Quote file name args to start-process-shell-command?, (continued)
- Re: Quote file name args to start-process-shell-command?, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/10/12
- Re: Quote file name args to start-process-shell-command?, Richard Stallman, 2006/10/12
- Re: Quote file name args to start-process-shell-command?, Stefan Monnier, 2006/10/12
- Re: Quote file name args to start-process-shell-command?, Lennart Borgman, 2006/10/13
- Re: Quote file name args to start-process-shell-command?, Kim F. Storm, 2006/10/13
- Re: Quote file name args to start-process-shell-command?, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/10/13
- Re: Quote file name args to start-process-shell-command?, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/10/12
- Re: Quote file name args to start-process-shell-command?, David Kastrup, 2006/10/12
- Re: Quote file name args to start-process-shell-command?, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/10/12
- Re: Quote file name args to start-process-shell-command?, David Kastrup, 2006/10/12
- Re: Quote file name args to start-process-shell-command?,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Quote file name args to start-process-shell-command?, Andreas Schwab, 2006/10/12
- Re: Quote file name args to start-process-shell-command?, David Kastrup, 2006/10/12
- Re: Quote file name args to start-process-shell-command?, Andreas Schwab, 2006/10/12
- Re: Quote file name args to start-process-shell-command?, Stefan Monnier, 2006/10/12
- Re: Quote file name args to start-process-shell-command?, David Kastrup, 2006/10/12
- Re: Quote file name args to start-process-shell-command?, Stefan Monnier, 2006/10/12
- Re: Quote file name args to start-process-shell-command?, Stuart D. Herring, 2006/10/12
- Re: Quote file name args to start-process-shell-command?, Stefan Monnier, 2006/10/12
- Re: Quote file name args to start-process-shell-command?, Stuart D. Herring, 2006/10/12
- Re: Quote file name args to start-process-shell-command?, Richard Stallman, 2006/10/13