RFR: 8330341: Wrap call to MT in ExecuteWithLog

Erik Joelsson erikj at openjdk.org
Mon Sep 8 13:22:15 UTC 2025


On Fri, 5 Sep 2025 17:08:30 GMT, Magnus Ihse Bursie <ihse at openjdk.org> wrote:

> We should wrap the call to `mt` in `ExecuteWithLog`. I tried to do this earlier but ran into problems with the tricky command line. The solution was to use `$$(COMMA)` (and `$$(HASH)`); I'm not sure why I did not see this before.
> 
> I also noted that there is an actual bug in the MT command line -- the trailing `;#1` is not protected from the shell, so the command line will end after `-outputresource:$$@`, and then a new command -- the comment `#1` which does nothing, will be executed. This works out anyway since if you leave out the resource identifier index the value of `CREATEPROCESS_MANIFEST_RESOURCE` will be used by default, and that happens to be 1.
>  (See https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/sbscs/mt-exe)

Marked as reviewed by erikj (Reviewer).

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PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27124#pullrequestreview-3196507421


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