Re: pg_ctl start broken on windows

Claudio Natoli wrote:
>
> Bruce Momjian writes:
> > I did a lot of poking around in MinGW and found some basic
> > rules. First,
> > MinGW's system() can't use single quotes for the executable
> > name or any
> > file used in redirection (as you showed above).  Second, it gets
> > confused with multiple double-quoted strings.  The fix is to add a
> > double-quote to the beginning and end of the system string,
> > so a typical
> > system string becomes:
> >
> >     system("\"\"ls\" 'a' 'b c' > \"out\"\");
> >
> > Single quotes are fine for arguments.
> >
> > The applied patch makes this change and documents the behavior.  Would
> > folks test these changes on Win32 please?
>
> FWIW, that's pretty much what I've been using.

Yes, you were the person who originally suggested the extra quotes, and
I found it documented here:

     http://home.earthlink.net/~rlively/MANUALS/COMMANDS/C/CMD.HTM

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