Hi, It may have been so for 20+ years but I just discovered today that system() would always try to use the short path of a command on Windows: https://github.com/wch/r-source/blob/635a67/src/gnuwin32/run.c#L141 If that's true, I wonder if it could provide an option to disable this behavior, because we recently ran into a case in which short paths wouldn't work. I wonder what the original motivation of using short paths was. If it was to avoid spaces in paths, wouldn't shQuote() work? Thanks!
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