Re: [PATCH] programs/sc: Allow using separate arguments for parameter name and value.

[Dmitry Timoshkov]

Torge Matthies  wrote:
> On 4/25/22 20:17, Dmitry Timoshkov wrote:
> > Torge Matthies  wrote:
> > > In addition to using one argument for both parameter name and value.
> > >
> > > This fixes a regression from commit 8b38c91d83844dea882922055ced7cdeb79c1693.
> >
> > Could you please clarify what precisely is the regression caused by the
> > mentioned above commit, and provide some examples which command lines
> > were broken and started to work with your patch.
>
> The mentioned commit broke commands like:
>  sc.exe create test binpath= C:\windows\system32\cmd.exe
>
> and:
>  sc.exe create test binpath= C:\windows\system32\cmd.exe 
>
> displayname= "Test Service" start= auto
>
> All sc create or sc failure commands where the parameter names and
> values are separated by a space are affected.

Thanks, it looks like sc.exe from Windows 10 does support providing
an argument as a separate parameter, and it's even reflected in the help
message (parameter name includes equal sign (=)) when 'binpath = path' is
passed on the command line.

Just curious, is your patch supposed to fix some real use case?