[Bf-committers] system() with spaces

[Alexander Ewering]

On Sat, 18 Nov 2006, Tony Agee wrote:

> And it doesn't work for me either, but I observe that the error on the
> console after a failure in blender, is the same as the error I get when I
> run (from a command prompt):
>
> "C:/Program Files/Blender Foundation/Blender/blender.exe -a
> c:\tmp\0001_0020.avi"

Well, this looks totally wrong, of course. What we're trying to tell the
system is:

"This is a path to an executable which may contain spaces" -switch1 \
-switch2 -switch3 "This is a path to a movie which may contain spaces"

And this is the code that generates the line:

sprintf(str, "\"%s\" -a -p %d %d \"%s\"", bprogname, pos[0], pos[1], file);

Unless I'm again totally blind and too sleep-deprived, this code generates
what I stated above, and should work (it does work on Linux). Why does it
not work on win32?

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