[bugs #11853] starting gdnc in a directory with spaces causes spawn to fail

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

Update of bugs #11853 (project gnustep):

             Open/Closed:                 In Test => Open                   

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Follow-up Comment #3:

Thanks for testing.



I think the leading '~' in the path is correct, as '~C' means the 'C' drive
on a windows system, and this path should be expanded to the native windows
path at the point where it is used.



Testing the new gdnc worked fine when I got my old windows-xp system running.
 However ...

I tried updating the rest of gnustep-base to the latest cvs code, and
everything stopped working, not just gdnc.  Programs simply crash on startup,
before doing anything.



Going back a while in cvs seems to indicate that my problem is not recent,
but stems from the point where a patch was applied to support windows unicode
filesystem operations (late december).



Am I alone in this, or has nobody tried updating their base library on a
windows system for a few months?



Anyway, at the moment I'm assuming that the current problem inb CVS stems
from that unicode windows patch ... I'm going to look at the code and see if
I can figure out what went wrong with it.

Re-opening this bug ... though perhaps I should be opening another one
instead.

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