Inhibit mingw CRT's auto-globbing of command line arguments
authorAndrew Dunstan <[email protected]>
Mon, 25 Apr 2022 19:02:13 +0000 (15:02 -0400)
committerAndrew Dunstan <[email protected]>
Mon, 25 Apr 2022 19:51:58 +0000 (15:51 -0400)
commit58887d58c6addd2ed727d57520c6c4629d59f89a
tree7fd77b2cab3d96ba87f56ca9fd70e92fbe134a02
parent5d223e4e0691911d1addbacbb6d843ac5c8af53a
Inhibit mingw CRT's auto-globbing of command line arguments

For some reason by default the mingw C Runtime takes it upon itself to
expand program arguments that look like shell globbing characters. That
has caused much scratching of heads and mis-attribution of the causes of
some TAP test failures, so stop doing that.

This removes an inconsistency with Windows binaries built with MSVC,
which have no such behaviour.

Per suggestion from Noah Misch.

Backpatch to all live branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220423025927[email protected]
src/common/exec.c