Re: Can't stop find-grep-dired when using Cygwin for the inferior process - bug in shell-quote-argument?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 18:09:19 +0200
> From: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, "Kim F. Storm" <address@hidden>
> 
> - Is there not a unix style shell for DOS too?

Yes, there's a DOS port of Bash.  However, the users of the DOS port
of Emacs (if there still are any out there ;-) do not need to do
anything special for that case, since the library function `system'
together with msdos.c:run_msdos_command (q.v.) will DTRT for them.
Specifically, there's the variable msdos-shells that run_msdos_command
checks, and the function `system' from the library used by the DOS
port will modify its behavior if $SHELL is set to sh.exe, bash.exe,
etc.

(I'm not sure this discussion has any significance for the DOS port,
since that port doesn't support async subprocesses, and so find-dired
will not work there at all.)