[Emacs-diffs] Changes to emacs/src/w32proc.c,v

[Miles Bader]

CVSROOT:        /cvsroot/emacs
Module name:    emacs
Changes by:     Miles Bader <miles>     07/12/06 00:46:20

Index: src/w32proc.c
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RCS file: /cvsroot/emacs/emacs/src/w32proc.c,v
retrieving revision 1.73
retrieving revision 1.74
diff -u -b -r1.73 -r1.74
--- src/w32proc.c       9 Oct 2007 08:52:51 -0000       1.73
+++ src/w32proc.c       6 Dec 2007 00:46:13 -0000       1.74
@@ -781,7 +781,14 @@
      variable in their environment.  */
   char ppid_env_var_buffer[64];
   char *extra_env[] = {ppid_env_var_buffer, NULL};
-  char *sepchars = " \t";
+  /* These are the characters that cause an argument to need quoting.
+     Arguments with whitespace characters need quoting to prevent the
+     argument being split into two or more. Arguments with wildcards
+     are also quoted, for consistency with posix platforms, where wildcards
+     are not expanded if we run the program directly without a shell.
+     Some extra whitespace characters need quoting in Cygwin programs,
+     so this list is conditionally modified below.  */
+  char *sepchars = " \t*?";
 
   /* We don't care about the other modes */
   if (mode != _P_NOWAIT)