bug#6674: PATCH: fix assignment of grep-find-use-xargs on Windows

[Christoph]

On 7/20/2010 10:02 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> Thanks.  To make my intent clear: I meant to enhance cmdproxy to use a
> batch file when invoking the windows shell.  You will see that there's
> a variable need_shell in cmdproxy's `main' function which gets set to
> a non-zero value when cmdproxy decides it needs to pass the command
> the the shell instead of invoking it directly.  What I suggested is to
> modify the code in this case to put the command on a temporary batch
> file, then invoke the shell on that batch file rather than on the
> command itself.

Eli,
I remember a comment of yours earlier in the thread that DOS does not 
have the problem. I assume that this is due to a difference in 
command.com vs cmd.exe?

Do we want to execute the batch file only in case of cmd.exe or for both 
command.com and cmd.exe?

Christoph