From: H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>
Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2009 19:58:34 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: improves the XBoard handling of the engine command line
X-Git-Tag: hgm-4.20100107~23
X-Git-Url: http://winboard.nl/cgi-bin?p=xboard.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=0183533e818083b1099145a0f42ee359bf0f3358

improves the XBoard handling of the engine command line

it now understands limited forms of quoting, so engine binaries with spaces in their file name can be handled.
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diff --git a/xboard.c b/xboard.c
index 3f1983d..c9546e2 100644
--- a/xboard.c
+++ b/xboard.c
@@ -7572,8 +7572,11 @@ int StartChildProcess(cmdLine, dir, pr)
     strcpy(buf, cmdLine);
     p = buf;
     for (;;) {
+	while(*p == ' ') p++;
 	argv[i++] = p;
-	p = strchr(p, ' ');
+	if(*p == '"' || *p == '\'')
+	     p = strchr(++argv[i-1], *p);
+	else p = strchr(p, ' ');
 	if (p == NULL) break;
 	*p++ = NULLCHAR;
     }