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-rw-r--r--lib-src/ChangeLog15
-rw-r--r--lib-src/emacsclient.c40
2 files changed, 48 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/lib-src/ChangeLog b/lib-src/ChangeLog
index 97266d8a66..f15644050d 100644
--- a/lib-src/ChangeLog
+++ b/lib-src/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2006-12-15 Juanma Barranquero <[email protected]>
+
+ * emacsclient.c (w32_execvp): New function; wrapper for `execvp'.
+ (execvp) [WINDOWSNT]: Redefine to `w32_execvp'.
+ (fail): Remove Windows-specific fix (subsumed into w32_execvp).
+ Suggestions and comment by Eli Zaretskii.
+
2006-12-06 Christoph Conrad <[email protected]>
* makefile.w32-in ($(BLD)/emacsclient.exe, $(BLD)/emacsclientw.exe):
@@ -19,11 +26,11 @@
(set_tcp_socket): Make the message for non-local connections
informational rather than an error.
-2006-11-28 Kevin Ryde <[email protected]> (tiny change)
+2006-11-28 Kevin Ryde <[email protected]> (tiny change)
* etags.c (readline): Check for double quote after #line.
-2006-11-28 Jan Dj,Ad(Brv <[email protected]> (tiny change)
+2006-11-28 Jan Dj,Ad(Brv <[email protected]>
* etags.c (readline): sscanf could in principle return 2.
@@ -55,8 +62,8 @@
2006-11-24 Michael Mauger <[email protected]>
- * emacsclient.c (file_name_absolute_p) [WINDOWSNT]: Support
- absolute file names with forward slashes.
+ * emacsclient.c (file_name_absolute_p) [WINDOWSNT]: Support absolute
+ file names with forward slashes.
2006-11-23 Juanma Barranquero <[email protected]>
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);