On 10/30/23 17:18, Yihui Xie wrote:
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!
Could you please file a minimal reproducible example that exhibits the
problem caused by an attempt to translate to short path names (note
there is a fallback to long path names)? In principle, short path names
should work when they are returned by Windows, this should not be
causing any trouble.
Thanks
Tomas
Regards,
Yihui
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