Bug in -jvmArgs parsing?

[Kirk Pepperdine]

Hi Dries,

Have you tried escaping the spaces to that the shell doesn’t split the value?

Kind regards,
Kirk


> On Aug 13, 2025, at 7:59 PM, Dries Samyn <mail at dries.net> wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure this is considered a bug as it matches the documented behaviour, but I can't think of a clean workaround if it is.
> 
> I believe arguments passed into the -jvmArgs option are space delimited. However, this is problematic when those arguments include spaces as part of the value.
> For example, I am trying to create a custom profiler for YourKit integration, but the YourKit agent, by default, has spaces in its path on MacOs, which means trying to pass it in the jvmArgs option is problematic.
> 
> I have created a reproduction of the issue and explanation here: https://github.com/driessamyn/jmh-spaces-bug-reproduction
> 
> Looking forward to hearing thoughts on this.
> 
> Dries.
> 

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