Fix bug #18745 with invoking Windows batch files with embedded whitespace.

 src/w32proc.c (create_child): If calling a quoted batch file,
 pass NULL for exe.

 nt/cmdproxy.c (batch_file_p): New function.
 (spawn): If calling a quoted batch file pass NULL for progname.

 test/automated/process-tests.el (process-test-quoted-batfile): New test.

2 files changed, 35 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/nt/ChangeLog b/nt/ChangeLog
index 632c3739493..c4e01a38c21 100644
--- a/nt/ChangeLog
+++ b/nt/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2014-10-22  Noam Postavsky  <npostavs@users.sourceforget.net>
+
+        * nt/cmdproxy.c (batch_file_p): New function.
+        (spawn): If calling a quoted batch file pass NULL for progname.
+        (Bug#18745)
+
 2014-10-20  Glenn Morris  <rgm@gnu.org>
 
         * Merge in all changes up to 24.4 release.
diff --git a/nt/cmdproxy.c b/nt/cmdproxy.c
index e48ca63a257..d8f7ae3c41e 100644
--- a/nt/cmdproxy.c
+++ b/nt/cmdproxy.c
@@ -220,6 +220,28 @@ get_next_token (char * buf, const char ** pSrc)
   return o - buf;
 }
 
+/* Return TRUE if PROGNAME is a batch file. */
+BOOL
+batch_file_p (const char *progname)
+{
+  const char *exts[] = {".bat", ".cmd"};
+  int n_exts = sizeof (exts) / sizeof (char *);
+  int i;
+
+  const char *ext = strrchr (progname, '.');
+
+  if (ext)
+    {
+      for (i = 0; i < n_exts; i++)
+        {
+          if (stricmp (ext, exts[i]) == 0)
+            return TRUE;
+        }
+    }
+
+  return FALSE;
+}
+
 /* Search for EXEC file in DIR.  If EXEC does not have an extension,
    DIR is searched for EXEC with the standard extensions appended.  */
 int
@@ -470,6 +492,13 @@ spawn (const char *progname, char *cmdline, const char *dir, int *retcode)
   memset (&start, 0, sizeof (start));
   start.cb = sizeof (start);
 
+  /* CreateProcess handles batch files as progname specially. This
+     special handling fails when both the batch file and arguments are
+     quoted.  We pass NULL as progname to avoid the special
+     handling. */
+  if (progname != NULL && cmdline[0] == '"' && batch_file_p (progname))
+      progname = NULL;
+
   if (CreateProcess (progname, cmdline, &sec_attrs, NULL, TRUE,
                      0, envblock, dir, &start, &child))
   {