mingw: support spawning programs containing spaces in their names

On some older Windows versions (e.g. Windows 7), the CreateProcessW()
function does not really support spaces in its first argument,
lpApplicationName. But it supports passing NULL as lpApplicationName,
which makes it figure out the application from the (possibly quoted)
first argument of lpCommandLine.

Let's use that trick (if we are certain that the first argument matches
the executable's path) to support launching programs whose path contains
spaces.

We will abuse the test-fake-ssh.exe helper to verify that this works and
does not regress.

This fixes #692

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <[email protected]>

Author: dscho

compat/mingw.c

@@ -1472,7 +1472,9 @@ static pid_t mingw_spawnve_fd(const char *cmd, const char **argv, char **deltaen
 	si.hStdError = winansi_get_osfhandle(fherr);
 
 	/* executables and the current directory don't support long paths */
-	if (xutftowcs_path(wcmd, cmd) < 0)
+	if (*argv && !strcmp(cmd, *argv))
+		wcmd[0] = L'\0';
+	else if (xutftowcs_path(wcmd, cmd) < 0)
 		return -1;
 	if (dir && xutftowcs_path(wdir, dir) < 0)
 		return -1;
@@ -1501,8 +1503,8 @@ static pid_t mingw_spawnve_fd(const char *cmd, const char **argv, char **deltaen
 	wenvblk = make_environment_block(deltaenv);
 
 	memset(&pi, 0, sizeof(pi));
-	ret = CreateProcessW(wcmd, wargs, NULL, NULL, TRUE, flags,
-		wenvblk, dir ? wdir : NULL, &si, &pi);
+	ret = CreateProcessW(*wcmd ? wcmd : NULL, wargs, NULL, NULL, TRUE,
+		flags, wenvblk, dir ? wdir : NULL, &si, &pi);
 
 	free(wenvblk);
 	free(wargs);

t/t0061-run-command.sh

@@ -202,4 +202,10 @@ test_expect_success MINGW 'verify curlies are quoted properly' '
 	test_cmp expect actual
 '
 
+test_expect_success MINGW 'can spawn with argv[0] containing spaces' '
+	cp "$GIT_BUILD_DIR/t/helper/test-fake-ssh$X" ./ &&
+	test_must_fail "$PWD/test-fake-ssh$X" 2>err &&
+	grep TRASH_DIRECTORY err
+'
+
 test_done