On 30/10/2023 16:18, Yihui Xie wrote:
Hi,
It may have been so for 20+ years but I just discovered today that system()
would always try to use the short path of a command on Windows:
https://github.com/wch/r-source/blob/635a67/src/gnuwin32/run.c#L141 If
that's true, I wonder if it could provide an option to disable this
behavior, because we recently ran into a case in which short paths wouldn't
work. I wonder what the original motivation of using short paths was. If it
was to avoid spaces in paths, wouldn't shQuote() work? Thanks!
No: system on Windows does not use a shell.
The 'original motivation' was to work reliably! Back in the days of
Windows 95 when many parts of Windows only supported 8+3 names.
Regards,
Yihui
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Please do re-read the posting guide. It has ' been so for 20+ years '.
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