RFR: 8282008: Incorrect handling of quoted arguments in ProcessBuilder [v4]

[Roger Riggs]

On Thu, 3 Mar 2022 15:38:44 GMT, Olga Mikhaltsova <omikhaltcova at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> This fix made equal processing of strings such as ""C:\\Program Files\\Git\\"" before and after JDK-8250568.
>> 
>> For example, it's needed to execute the following command on Windows:
>> `C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WScript.exe "MyVB.vbs" "C:\Program Files\Git" "Test"`
>> it's equal to:
>> `new ProcessBuilder("C:\\Windows\\SysWOW64\\WScript.exe", "MyVB.vbs", ""C:\\Program Files\\Git\\"", "Test").start();`
>> 
>> While processing, the 3rd argument ""C:\\Program Files\\Git\\"" treated as unquoted due to the condition added in JDK-8250568.
>> 
>>     private static String unQuote(String str) {
>>     .. 
>>        if (str.endsWith("\\"")) {
>>             return str;    // not properly quoted, treat as unquoted
>>         }
>>     ..
>>     }
>> 
>> 
>> that leads to the additional surrounding by quotes in ProcessImpl::createCommandLine(..) because needsEscaping(..) returns true due to the space inside the string argument.
>> As a result the native function CreateProcessW (src/java.base/windows/native/libjava/ProcessImpl_md.c) gets the incorrectly quoted argument: 
>> 
>> pcmd = C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WScript.exe MyVB.vbs ""C:\Program Files\Git"" Test
>> (jdk.lang.Process.allowAmbiguousCommands = true)
>> pcmd = "C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WScript.exe" MyVB.vbs ""C:\Program Files\Git\\"" Test
>> (jdk.lang.Process.allowAmbiguousCommands = false)
>> 
>> 
>> Obviously, a string ending with `"\\""` must not be started with `"""` to treat as unquoted overwise it’s should be treated as properly quoted.
>
> Olga Mikhaltsova has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Reverted addition of the test via echo

Thanks for the followup and confirmation. I'll move #7709 to review from draft.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/7504