[MDEV-27191] MariaDB client - "system" command does not work on Windows - Jira

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Type: Bug
Status: Closed (View Workflow)
Priority: Major
Resolution: Fixed
Affects Version/s: 10.2(EOL), 10.3(EOL), 10.4(EOL), 10.5, 10.6, 10.7(EOL)
Fix Version/s: 10.2.42, 10.3.33, 10.4.23, 10.5.14, 10.6.6
Component/s: Platform Windows, Scripts & Clients
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The reason for this is because USE_POPEN was disabled on Windows, a long long time ago, on whatever undocumented reasons -perhaps it did not work on Win95, when Monty tried it, or maybe it was fork+exec back then, we'll never know.

popen() works ok on Windows, apparently.

This "works on Unix only" forces users to do unnecessary workarounds, e.g when creating NTFS snapshot backups , see https://serverfault.com/a/360326/64221 . The only thing that is needed for easy backup'ing would be to insert a "vssadmin" command between FTWRL and UNLOCK TABLES.

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Assignee:: Vladislav Vaintroub

Reporter:: Vladislav Vaintroub

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Created:: 2021-12-07 16:25

Updated:: 2021-12-07 18:00

Resolved:: 2021-12-07 18:00

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