Re: gspawn-win32-helper

--- In [email protected], "Bill Nalen" <bill.nalen@t...> wrote:
> Alex wrote:
> >There is a problem with launching programs in win32 with 
> g_spawn_command_line_async(). I have no >trouble running something like 
> "'c:\\windows\\sol.exe'", but if the path contains spaces, like, 
> >"'c:\\program files\\internet explorer\\iexplore.exe'", it says "Failed 
> to execute child process: no >such file or directory".
> >The single quotes I enclosed the paths in come from glib documentation, 
> and the error persists if I >remove them.
> >Note, gspawn-win32-helper.exe is in my path.
> 
> I had the same problem a while back.  If you look through the code you 
> will find that the command line is being parsed.  You can change it to 
> c:/progra~1/intern~1/iexplore.exe and it will work
> 
> Bill

I think this is only a temporary solution and translating pathnames from windows to posix and from windows to dos 8.3 each time is not an option. I guess this is a bug... Anyways, thanks for your help.