[fpc-pascal] Linux - ExecuteProcess versus fpSystem

michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be
Fri Sep 9 13:50:21 CEST 2011



On Fri, 9 Sep 2011, Marco van de Voort wrote:

> In our previous episode, michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be said:
>>
>> You must remove the quotes around 'outputfile.org':
>>
>>   Status:=ExecuteProcess('/path/to/oggenc',['-Q','--output=outputfile.org','tempfile.wav']);
>
> While better, this is afaik not required per se, the executing binary can
> strip them also while doing cmdline parsing.  It doesn't matter for
> executeprocess.

In general, you can't expect that from the executing binary. 
It's safe to assume that most don't do this. 
(I've never seen one that does, in fact)

Michael.



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