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From: Sylvain Le Gall <sylvain@le-gall.net>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: Sys.command and quotes
Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 09:45:12 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrnh002l8.e8q.sylvain@gallu.homelinux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49FFFFB5.1090403@gmail.com>

Hello,

On 05-05-2009, Matthieu Dubuget <matthieu.dubuget@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a problem with mingw version of ocaml (compiled by hand, or with 
> godi).
>
> 1- Is the following reproducible?
>
> 2- If yes, do you consider this as a bug?
>
> It seems that in "Sys.command s", if the first and the last characters 
> of s are '"', they are elided?
>

In fact, I have done some testing about this sometimes ago and comme to
the conclusion that "-handling on windows is quite weird. If and only if
there is a space (or other problematic char) in your commannd/arg name
you can use quoting. Otherwise it will be reported as an error.

I think it is not directly related to OCaml.

Maybe, I am not totaly right with my conclusion, but I can give you a
simple tips: 

Use Unix.create_process et al that take array as arguments. It always
use the good quoting.

Regards
Sylvain Le Gall


      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-05-05  9:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-05  8:58 Matthieu Dubuget
2009-05-05  9:37 ` [Caml-list] " Francois Pottier
2009-05-05 19:59   ` Matthieu Dubuget
2009-05-05  9:44 ` Olivier Andrieu
2009-05-05  9:45 ` Sylvain Le Gall [this message]

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