On 9/9/19 4:48 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 2019-09-09 00:06, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> Diagnosing this took quite a lot of time and detective work. For some
>> reason I don't quite understand, when calling the Windows command
>> processor in a modern msys2/WindowsServer2019 installation, you need to
>> double the slash, thus:
>>
>> cmd //c foo.bat
>>
>> Some Internet postings at least seem to suggest this is by design. (FSVO
>> "design")
>>
>> I tested this on older versions and the change appears to work, so I
>> propose to apply the attached patch.
> If we're worried about messing things up for non-msys2 environments, we
> could also set MSYS2_ARG_CONV_EXCL instead; see
> <https://github.com/msys2/msys2/wiki/Porting#filesystem-namespaces>.
> According to that page, that would seem to be the more proper way to do it.
>
Nice find, thanks, I'll do it that way.
cheers
andrew
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