Re: [Sbcl-devel] [Sbcl-commits] CVS: sbcl/tests run-tests.lisp, 1.6, 1.7

[Nikodemus S. <nik...@ra...>]

Juho Snellman <js...@ik...> writes:

> It's not the intent that users of RUN-PROGRAM need to worry about
> quoting the arguments, and it would be especially bad if they only
> needed to do it on some platforms :-) If the arguments need to be
> escaped on win32, it should probably be done somewhere in RUN-PROGRAM
> or spawn(), not in every caller.

Agreed. Unfortunately it is not immediately obvious how to do this
sanely: should RUN-PROGRAM treat "foo\\bar" and "foo\\\\bar" as
equivalents? #\\ is a really unfortunate choise for a path-separator.

Since Windows accepts / just fine, perhaps we should use that in
our own canonical representation to save us (and our users) from
escape-hell?

Cheers,

  -- Nikodemus              Schemer: "Buddha is small, clean, and serious."
                   Lispnik: "Buddha is big, has hairy armpits, and laughs."