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ref: 614f1d6268fd986fc628eec3754bd4599363ad13
parent: 5d69d42ee3ac87861b7cf8767cc7755c173e6c2c
author: Igor Böhm <igor@9lab.org>
date: Sun Nov 28 19:06:45 EST 2021

rio: allow spaces in working directory path (-cd) when creating a new window via wctl

The initial working directory of a new window may be set by a
`-cd directory` option. However, the `-cd directory` option is
not capable of handling paths with spaces when used via wctl.

To enable paths with spaces the function
/sys/src/cmd/rio/wctl.c:/^parsewctl is extended to handle quoted
directory paths.

Before applying the patch the following will fail to open a new
window by writing to /dev/wctl:

<snip>
 % rio -i window
 % mkdir '/tmp/path with space'
 % echo new -cd '''/tmp/path with space''' window -x rc >> /dev/wctl
 % pwd
 /tmp/path with space
<snap>

The following invocation fails as well:

<snip>
 % window -cd '/tmp/path with space'
 % pwd
 /tmp/path with space
<snap>

After applying the patch the above sequences work as expected,
opening a window running rc with the working directory set to
'/tmp/path with space'.

--- a/rc/bin/window
+++ b/rc/bin/window
@@ -100,6 +100,6 @@
 	}
 
 	if(! ~ $#wdir 0)
-		spec=($spec -cd $wdir)
+		spec=($spec -cd `{a=$wdir whatis a|sed 's!^a=!!;q'})
 	echo new $spec $argv0 -x $cmd >>$wctl
 }
--- a/sys/src/cmd/rio/wctl.c
+++ b/sys/src/cmd/rio/wctl.c
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@
 parsewctl(char **argp, Rectangle r, Rectangle *rp, int *pidp, int *idp, int *hiddenp, int *scrollingp, char **cdp, char *s, char *err)
 {
 	int cmd, param, xy, sign;
-	char *t;
+	char *f[2], *t;
 
 	*pidp = 0;
 	*hiddenp = 0;
@@ -252,10 +252,13 @@
 			s++;
 		if(param == Cd){
 			*cdp = s;
-			while(*s && !isspace(*s))
-				s++;
-			if(*s != '\0')
-				*s++ = '\0';
+			gettokens(*cdp, f, nelem(f), " \t\r\n\v\f");
+			s += strlen(*cdp);
+			if((*cdp)[0] == '\'' && s[-1] == '\''){
+				/* drop quotes */
+				*cdp += 1;
+				s[-1] = '\0';
+			}
 			continue;
 		}
 		sign = 0;