Re: Quote file name args to start-process-shell-command?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden
> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 13:25:00 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> >> Clearly, ARGS is (except on VMS) _not_ a list of separate arguments,
> >> but rather strings pasted together with spaces.
> >
> > Yes, as any API to `system' should do.
> 
> start-process-shell-command is neither documented as an API to
> `system', nor implemented by using `system'.

It clearly produces the same effect; the details don't matter.  And I
think that any reasonable API to invoke a shell command would work in
the same way.

> > That remark should be understood as follows:
> > start-process-shell-command is a wrapper around `system',
> 
> No, it isn't.  It does something similar

You are nitpicking.

> but the similarity to what `system' does is not documented

There's no need to document that; we don't refer to C functions for
other primitives, at least not as a matter of principle.