Support Win32 commands having nonstandard command line parsing rules #148
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Trivial examples worked, but my commit fbd6d18 broke even those. Cover all known cases, subject to assumptions now described in documentation. As a surviving incompatibility compared to the last release, IPC::Run still adds quotation marks to arguments where quotation marks are optional. That is consequential in a batch file running "echo %*", for example. One can argue that it's a good thing, but it is an incompatibility. Discourage executing batch files with arguments, particularly when argument values contain non-alphanumeric characters. IPC::Run now handles them well, but the batch file itself may not.
This unblocks general use of programs like cmd.exe and cscript.exe as stages in IPC::Run pipelines.
Per its documentation, it reports via GetLastError(), not $!.
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That looks hella impressive and comprehensive. Do the tests also make #147 superfluous? Agreed on the cygwin bit. |
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On Wed, Jul 07, 2021 at 06:25:27PM -0700, Christian Walde (Mithaldu) wrote:
That looks hella impressive and comprehensive. Do the tests also make #147 superfluous? Agreed on the cygwin bit.
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Folks with repository write access: is the matter of reviewing this pull request still in your queue? (#150 is another one ready to merge.) |
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Upon merging this, run.t reached the 6h timeout instead of completing |
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This fixes a regression affecting Win32 batch files. The regression
originated in my #143. This implements the #143 (comment) design.
The introduction of IPC::Run::Win32Process makes Win32::Process::Create()
errors easier to reach, so I've included a commit to fix their reporting:
before:
Bad file descriptor: Win32::Process::Create() at C:\...after:
The system cannot find the file specified.: Win32::Process::Create() at C:\...While this implementation handles Cygwin well for the tests in #143 (comment),
I found other cases that don't work. See the new comments in run.t. The
Cygwin situation is no worse than it was in the last IPC::Run release, and I
see no low-hanging fruit for improving it. I'm content with that.