Hello there,

Here is the deal: spaces are allowed in file names; space is also used
to separate files on both win32 and *nix platform.

The following program won't run correctly on both win32 and *nix:

class PathName {
 public static void main(String[] args) {
   String javafile = args[0];

   try {
     Runtime rt = Runtime.getRuntime();
     Process p = rt.exec(new String[]{"javac", javafile});   //XXX
     p.waitFor();
     System.out.println( (p.exitValue() == 0)? "succeeded" :
"failed");
   } catch (Exception e) {}
 }
}

Consider file name with space in it,  what should be passed to
Runtime.exec at XXX to make this code run both on win32 and *nix?

I tried putting quotation marks around the filename, replace space with
%20, neither seem to work perfectly.

Any tips?

-Shin