On 05/24/2007 11:27 AM, Joe Orton wrote: > On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 06:39:48PM -0500, William Rowe wrote: > >>While I'm working on a solution to permit cmd.exe to be launched from >>a service process within Win32, I'm still struck by the inefficiency >>here and feel we need to resolve the core issue. > > ... > >> [ ] Revert to "|foo" to invoke foo, and >> add "|$foo" syntax to launch foo via sh > > > This would be a regression, it will break working configurations. > > >> [ ] Retain "|foo" to invoke foo through sh, and >> add "||foo" syntax to directly launch foo > > > No strong objection to doing this, but it seems like a case of adding > config foo to work around an APR bug; though I guess there's a > reasonable argument that it's a useful feature regardless. > > Is the APR bug really so intractable?
I agree with Joe here. As far as I remember this is mainly a windows issue, correct? Can't this be fixed somehow in APR? If not, I would vote for the second option to avoid regressions in existing configurations. Regards Rüdiger
