• via Digitalmars-d-bugs (20/20) Sep 09 2014 https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13447

via Digitalmars-d-bugs <digitalmars-d-bugs puremagic.com> writes:

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13447

          Issue ID: 13447
           Summary: Do not escape process parameters unless necessary
           Product: D
           Version: D2
          Hardware: All
                OS: Windows
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P1
         Component: Phobos
          Assignee: nobody puremagic.com
          Reporter: thecybershadow gmail.com

Some Windows programs do not use CommandLineToArgvW. Examples: WinMerge,
GoLink, older programs written for Windows versions before Windows 2000 (which
introduced CommandLineToArgvW). These programs can't handle switches when they
are enclosed in quotes (e.g. "/r").

std.process should not quote parameters unless it is actually necessary for
them to be parsed correctly.

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