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Re: Fixing Windows and DOS command line argument quoting


From: Daniel Colascione
Subject: Re: Fixing Windows and DOS command line argument quoting
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 03:44:31 -0700
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On 4/25/11 11:47 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 10:56:07 -0700
>> From: Daniel Colascione <address@hidden>
>> I'd like to remove this path in the trunk and see whether the new
>> 8192-character length limitation is a problem in practice.
> 
> No, I don't think it's a good idea.  8K is too low by any measure; we
> already hit the shell limitations once or twice when related problems
> were discussed.

All right.

> What are the disadvantages of detecting quoted command lines and
> sending only those through the shell?

Besides complexity, none.  I've implemented this approach, making the
necessary changes to cmdproxy.c and subr.el, and updated the trunk.

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