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Unix.open_process fails to pass empty arguments #6332

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vicuna opened this issue Feb 28, 2014 · 1 comment
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Unix.open_process fails to pass empty arguments #6332

vicuna opened this issue Feb 28, 2014 · 1 comment

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vicuna commented Feb 28, 2014

Original bug ID: 6332
Reporter: prevosto
Assigned to: @damiendoligez
Status: closed (set by @damiendoligez on 2014-05-16T18:51:01Z)
Resolution: fixed
Priority: normal
Severity: minor
Platform: x86
OS: Windows
OS Version: 7
Version: 4.01.0
Fixed in version: 4.02.0+dev
Category: platform support (windows, cross-compilation, etc)
Monitored by: bobot

Bug description

As mentioned in #6107, under Windows, Unix.open_process and friends build a command-line string from the argv array.

Doing this, they fail to properly quote an empty string given as argument, as can be seen with the following example:

=== foo_ml.ml ===
let a = [| "./foo_c.exe"; ""; |];;

Printf.printf "number of args passed to create_process is %d\n%!" (Array.length a);
Unix.create_process "./foo_c.exe" a Unix.stdin Unix.stdout Unix.stderr
;;

exit 0;;

=== foo_c.c ===== (taken from #2939)
#include <stdio.h>
#include <windows.h>

int main(int argc, char ** argv)
{
int i;
printf("Raw command line is:\n%s\n", GetCommandLine());
printf("Number of args is: %d\n",argc);
printf("Parsed command line is:\n");
for (i = 0; i < argc; i++) printf("\targv[%d] = %s\n", i, argv[i]);
return 0;
}

The attached patch will take care of the issue

Steps to reproduce

ocamlc -o foo_ml.exe unix.cma foo_ml.ml
gcc -o foo_c.exe foo_c.c
./foo_ml.exe

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vicuna commented May 16, 2014

Comment author: @damiendoligez

Fixed in 4.02+dev7 (commit 14888)

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