Inhibit mingw CRT's auto-globbing of command line arguments
authorAndrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Mon, 25 Apr 2022 19:02:13 +0000 (15:02 -0400)
committerAndrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Mon, 25 Apr 2022 19:47:55 +0000 (15:47 -0400)
commitb787c554c264cbed4de4eff2bb170a5224f0cfa5
tree624a19cce0137f6bafceee4815bc7cef92b36b1f
parentdec8ad367e46180f826d5b6dc820fbecba1b71d2
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.GA1274057@rfd.leadboat.com
src/common/exec.c