[erlang-questions] Still problems with open_port({spawn, XYZ}, ...) under Windows?

[James Hague]

> Looks like it's still not possible to spawn a program with spaces in
> the name, even in R13B.  True?

To answer my own question, yes.  This works:

open_port({spawn,"d:\\tools\\unzip.exe"}, [exit_status,stderr_to_stdout]).
#Port<0.437>

Then I renamed the tools directory to "t ools" (space after the "t"):

open_port({spawn,"d:\\t ools\\unzip.exe"}, [exit_status,stderr_to_stdout]).
** exception error: einval
     in function  open_port/2
        called as open_port({spawn,"d:\\t ools\\unzip.exe"},
                            [exit_status,stderr_to_stdout])

Surrounding the pathname with escaped quotes doesn't work.  Digging
through the code, however, it looks like there is support for quoted
paths, but it appears to not be working.

James