Bug #60181 [Asn]: proc_open fails to read quoted whitespaced directories in Windows

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=60181&edit=1 ID: 60181 Updated by: pajoye@php.net Reported by: php at aldomx dot com Summary: proc_open fails to read quoted whitespaced directories in Windows Status: Assigned Type: Bug Package: Program Execution Operating System: Windows 7 PHP Version: 5.3.8 Assigned To: mattficken Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Matt, please take a look to see what's going wrong here Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-10-31 23:37:17] php at aldomx dot com As additional information, using the same string with exec(), system() or passthru() works fine, proc_open() is the only one with this issue. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-10-31 23:13:03] php at aldomx dot com Yes, same result ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-10-31 23:08:37] pajoye@php.net Have you tries to use escape shell args? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-10-31 22:51:41] php at aldomx dot com Sorry, I forgot to specify "when you use 2 or more quoted arguments" (in my example git directory in program files and working directory) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-10-31 22:43:35] pajoye@php.net Works just fine: <?php $descriptorspec = array( 1 => array("pipe", "w"), 2 => array("pipe", "w") ); $cmd = '"c:\\test\\bin with space\\t.bat"'; $process = proc_open($cmd, $descriptorspec, $pipes); echo stream_get_contents($pipes[1]); echo stream_get_contents($pipes[2]); $return_value = proc_close($process); echo "command returned $return_value\n"; where t.bat contains only "dir" for testing ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=60181 -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=60181&edit=1