Michael Sinz wrote:
> On 11/8/05, Julian Foad <julianfoad@btopenworld.com> wrote:
>
>>The implementation uses "system()" which requires that the program name and
>>arguments are represented by a single string with spaces delimiting program
>>name and arguments. We should use svn_io_run_command which keeps the program
>>name and arguments separately intact.
>
> Please don't change this - there is a perfectly good way to address
> the spaces issue.
>
>
>>Philip Martin wrote:
>>
>>>There was a patch to do something like that in the past. The current
>>>code allows things like
>>>
>>>SVN_EDITOR="LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/some/lib /some/program"
>>>
>>>and the patch would have stopped that working.
>>
>>It also allows initial arguments to be specified, like SVN_EDITOR="/bin/editor
>>--option=x".
>>
>>I doubt it was intended to allow things like that; that looks like an
>>accidental artifact of the implementation. In the absence of any further
>>argument for keeping the current behaviour I recommend calling it a bug and
>>fixing it, i.e. treat the whole variable as the name of a program.
>
> No, that is needed - some editors on some platforms detach by default
> and you need
> to provide some options to the editor.
Strictly speaking, that ability to specify a multi-word command line is USEFUL,
but not NECESSARY. The same issue is present for invoking external "diff"
command, but we handle that a different way, requiring an intermediate program
or script if it needs to modify arguments or environment variables.
> All that you need to do is "quote" the program name part of the variable and it
> will work just as expected. I tried this on Windows and Linux and all is well.
Excellent. That may be the best solution for invoking an editor: leave the
code alone and document the feature. Does anybody see a problem with that?
- Julian
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Received on Tue Nov 8 16:31:02 2005