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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>,  address@hidden
> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 09:44:14 +0200
> 
> >   Remaining arguments are strings passed as additional arguments for 
> > COMMAND.
> >
> > There's no requirement here that each one of the "&rest ARGS" be a
> > separate command-line argument, is there?
> 
> Then it would be completely pointless to allow several ARGS.

It's not pointless, it can be useful if the command line is generated
piecewise.  start-process-shell-command is not system(3).