(Transmission Control Protocol) and 'udp (User Datagram Protocol) are
supported. When omitted, 'tcp is assumed.
-Ouput via `process-send-string' and input via buffer or filter (see
+Output via `process-send-string' and input via buffer or filter (see
`set-process-filter') are stream-oriented. That means UDP datagrams are
not guaranteed to be sent and received in discrete packets. (But small
datagrams around 500 bytes that are not truncated by `process-send-string'
(defun shell-quote-argument (argument)
"Quote an argument for passing as argument to an inferior shell."
(if (and (eq system-type 'windows-nt)
- ;; #### this is a temporary hack. a better solution needs
- ;; futzing with the c code. i'll do this shortly.
(let ((progname (downcase (file-name-nondirectory
shell-file-name))))
(or (equal progname "command.com")
(equal progname "cmd.exe"))))
- argument
+ ;; the expectation is that you can take the result of
+ ;; shell-quote-argument and pass it to as an arg to
+ ;; (start-process shell-quote-argument ...) and have it end
+ ;; up as-is in the program's argv[] array. to do this, we
+ ;; need to protect against both the shell's and the program's
+ ;; quoting conventions (and our own conventions in
+ ;; mswindows-construct-process-command-line!). Putting quotes
+ ;; around shell metachars gets through the last two, and applying
+ ;; the normal VC runtime quoting works with practically all apps.
+ (mswindows-quote-one-vc-runtime-arg argument t)
;; Quote everything except POSIX filename characters.
;; This should be safe enough even for really weird shells.
(let ((result "") (start 0) end)