Re: Quote file name args to start-process-shell-command?

[Andreas Schwab]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

> address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:
>
>> David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> One would have to look at the actual use cases to see whether any
>>> caller assumes differently, but from the description, I'd agree
>>> with Lennart's idea.
>>
>> But it would break any uses where the caller already has used
>> shell-quote-argument.
>>
>> Let's leave the API alone
>
> It appears broken to me, but fixing it in a backwards-compatible way
> does not seem possible without further messing the API up.

There is nothing broken.  The function is explicitly designed that way.

Andreas.

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