w32-quote-process-args

[Joe Casadonte]

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In GNU Emacs 21.1.1 (i386-mingw-nt4.0.1381)
 of 2001-10-29 on JCASADONTE
configured using `configure --with-gcc (2.95)'
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: ENU
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:







Was there some changed behavior with this variable in Emacs 21?

In Emacs 21, if I run "emacs -q" and evaluate the following form

   (call-process "cleartool" nil t nil
                 "desc"
                 "-fmt"
                 "[nil \\\"%m\\\" \\\"%f\\\" \\\"%Rf\\\" \\\"%Sn\\\" 
\\\"%PSn\\\" \\\"%On\\\" \\\"%u\\\" \\\"%Nd\\\" nil nil nil\\n%c"
                 "l:\\util\\Util.java")

I get expected the results:

   [nil "version" "" "" "\main\64" "\main\63" 
"b0acf0fa.eff111d5.bf0d.00:01:03:25:1d:37" "pfonz" "20020109.085112" nil nil nil
   Merge the latest into 3.1

If I then evaluate:

   (setq w32-quote-process-args ?\")

and re-evaluate the first one, I get:

   cleartool: Error: Unable to access "\%f\": No such file or directory.
   cleartool: Error: Unable to access "\%Rf\": No such file or directory.
   cleartool: Error: Unable to access "\%Sn\": No such file or directory.
   cleartool: Error: Unable to access "\%PSn\": No such file or directory.
   cleartool: Error: Unable to access "\%On\": No such file or directory.
   cleartool: Error: Unable to access "\%u\": No such file or directory.
   cleartool: Error: Unable to access "\%Nd\": No such file or directory.
   cleartool: Error: Unable to access "nil": No such file or directory.
   cleartool: Error: Unable to access "nil": No such file or directory.
   cleartool: Error: Unable to access "nil\\n%c l:\util\Util.java": Invalid 
argument.

Running this same test on 20.7.1 (with -q) produced the correct
results regardless of the value of w32-quote-process-args.

I searched thru the NEWS file and did not see anything regarding this.

--
Regards,

joe
Joe Casadonte
jcasadonte@northbound-train.com

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