[TYPO3-v4] RFC #6001 and resulting #16656 : spaces in paths for IM/GM on Windows

[Jigal van Hemert]

Reminder :-)

I'd like to fix this in 4.5 and I see no feasible solution, so any ideas 
are really welcome!

On 6-12-2010 10:14, Jigal van Hemert wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In RFC #6001 [1] an issue was fixed in which spaces in path names were
> allowed and commands passed to exec() were quoted.
>
> In issue #16656 [2] it turns out that executing quoted commands is
> problematic in PHP 5.2 (at least on Windows), due to a bug in PHP.
> Quoted paths without spaces also don't work in these cases!
>
> The workaround I found on various forums was to use the "short path"
> names (a.k.a. DOS 8.3 names) and this is confirmed to work. But... not
> all Windows versions (e.g. 2008) have support for short path names
> enabled by default.
>
> In short:
> - PHP 5.3 : quoting paths works
> - PHP 5.2 : quoting paths does not work (at least not in all versions),
> short path names not always available, so adding path to im/gm in %PATH%
> variable would be the solution.
>
> Any suggestions for an approach to solve this gracefully?
>
> [1] http://bugs.typo3.org/view.php?id=6001
> [2] http://bugs.typo3.org/view.php?id=16656

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