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author | Juanma Barranquero <[email protected]> | 2006-12-15 14:53:44 +0000 |
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committer | Juanma Barranquero <[email protected]> | 2006-12-15 14:53:44 +0000 |
commit | 4472aef4c3bd2a802f4381477d747d88c867ff3d (patch) | |
tree | 4e7c068819941700384c115dcc1fcc152cc2774d /lib-src/emacsclient.c | |
parent | c6e87e896823db85f227377dfb76e2750fd5d109 (diff) |
(w32_execvp): New function; wrapper for `execvp'.
(execvp) [WINDOWSNT]: Redefine to `w32_execvp'.
(fail): Remove Windows-specific fix (subsumed in w32_execvp).
Diffstat (limited to 'lib-src/emacsclient.c')
-rw-r--r-- | lib-src/emacsclient.c | 40 |
1 files changed, 37 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib-src/emacsclient.c b/lib-src/emacsclient.c index f05b98ecce..429d4b5bdc 100644 --- a/lib-src/emacsclient.c +++ b/lib-src/emacsclient.c @@ -298,6 +298,42 @@ Report bugs to [email protected].\n", progname); } +#ifdef WINDOWSNT + +/* + execvp() wrapper for Windows. Quotes arguments with embedded spaces. + + This is necessary due to the broken implementation of exec* routines in + the Microsoft libraries: they concatenate the arguments together without + quoting special characters, and pass the result to CreateProcess, with + predictably bad results. By contrast, Posix execvp passes the arguments + directly into the argv[] array of the child process. +*/ +int +w32_execvp (path, argv) + char *path; + char **argv; +{ + int i; + + argv[0] = (char *) alternate_editor; + + for (i = 0; argv[i]; i++) + if (strchr (argv[i], ' ')) + { + char *quoted = alloca (strlen (argv[i]) + 3); + sprintf (quoted, "\"%s\"", argv[i]); + argv[i] = quoted; + } + + return execvp (path, argv); +} + +#undef execvp +#define execvp w32_execvp + +#endif /* WINDOWSNT */ + /* Try to run a different command, or --if no alternate editor is defined-- exit with an errorcode. @@ -310,9 +346,7 @@ fail (argc, argv) if (alternate_editor) { int i = optind - 1; -#ifdef WINDOWSNT - argv[i] = (char *)alternate_editor; -#endif + execvp (alternate_editor, argv + i); message (TRUE, "%s: error executing alternate editor \"%s\"\n", progname, alternate_editor); |