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2023-01-17
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| 15:37 | • Closed ticket [ce73fc2173]: ui doesn't work on Windows 9x (portable_system() broken) plus 3 other changes ... (artifact: e80be03eaa user: stephan) | |
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2012-09-17
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| 07:34 | fix [ce73fc2173] <p>Restore Win9x, using unicows eliminate all #ifdef UNICODE ... (Closed-Leaf check-in: 9cf5056af9 user: jan.nijtmans tags: win95-unicows) | |
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2012-09-12
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| 14:42 | fix [ce73fc2173] as well ... (check-in: ed5695fe7f user: jan.nijtmans tags: restore-win95) | |
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2010-03-17
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| 10:53 | • New ticket [ce73fc2173] ui doesn't work on Windows 9x (portable_system() broken). ... (artifact: 4237905097 user: anonymous) | |
| Ticket Hash: | ce73fc217320601b9c8ba2c94507e25e82879edc | |||
| Title: | ui doesn't work on Windows 9x (portable_system() broken) | |||
| Status: | Closed | Type: | Code_Defect | |
| Severity: | Minor | Priority: | ||
| Subsystem: | Resolution: | Wont_Fix | ||
| Last Modified: | 2023-01-17 15:37:16 | |||
| Version Found In: | [599e6abfb1] 2010-03-08 | |||
| Description: | ||||
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On Windows 9x I get "Invalid command or file name" when issuing "fossil ui" command and each time browser sends a request to a fossil server.
The problem is in portable_system() -- 9x doesn't like a hack with double quotes around a command string. Since system(string) function on Windows is implemented as %COMSPEC% /c string, on 9x we get: %COMSPEC% /c ""fossil" http "foo"", which does not work, instead of normal: %COMSPEC% /c "fossil" http "foo", which doesn't work on NT etc. A hack using double quotes around entire command string on Windows NT (2000, XP etc.) is documented and works because cmd.exe strips the first and the last quote if a command starts with a quote. So there exists another dirty (and IIRC undocumented) hack. We could start command string with something that both cmd.exe and command.com ignore: %COMSPEC% /c ="fossil" http "foo" %COMSPEC% /c ="fossil" http foo %COMSPEC% /c =fossil http "foo" %COMSPEC% /c =start http://127.0.0.1/ Commands above work just fine both in 9x and NT (up to Windows 7) as long as internal commands like echo or start are NOT quoted ( | ||||