Taco Hoekwater wrote:
Hi Tomek,
T T wrote:
Hi,
I have encountered a problem with os.spawn(arg) on Windows. If arg[1]='foo bar' and arg[0]=nil, then the spawned process gets 'foo' as argv[0] and 'bar' as argv[1]. This might be expected, since according to docs, os.spawn doesn't do any argument processing.
Let's put it this way: windows command line processing does not agree with my neurons, so I have stayed way from it as much as possible (and will continue to do so).
A good, clean patch would be welcome of course, but I myself will not spend any more time on the stuff, not even for bug reports, as all that would be accomplished by doing so is that it would give me a headache, and there are much more pleasing ways to reach that state.
The Python community have solved this problem, with the subprocess module. http://docs.python.org/library/subprocess.html To quote from that URL ==== The subprocess module allows you to spawn new processes, connect to their input/output/error pipes, and obtain their return codes. This module intends to replace several other, older modules and functions, such as: os.system os.spawn* os.popen* popen2.* commands.* ==== The specification for subprocess is at http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0324/ If anyone would like to create a module for lua to solve the problem of filenames with spaces then Python's subprocess would be a good place to start. -- Jonathan