zopectl run doesn't allow arguments with embedded spaces

[Paul Winkler]

ZopeCtl.ZopeCmd.do_run() is passed an 'arg' argument which has been naively joined into one string. This seems to happen in main() in that file.

It means that you get unexpected results from a command like:

 bin/zopectl run myscript "a single argument?"

... because it will be treated as if you'd done this (quotes shown to make the point clear):

 bin/zopectl run myscript "a" "single" "argument?"

This probably also affects other zopectl commands that take optional arguments.

[Paul Winkler (slinkp)]

Uploaded: startup.patch

Here's a patch against Zope2/Startup/zopectl.py. Works here, with some limitations: it won't handle embedded quotes in arguments and it currently only works with spaces, not arbitrary whitespace.

Also I think zdaemon has the same issue, which would affect zeoctl at least.

I checked Zope 2.10; it looks the same as 2.9.1.

[Tres Seaver (tseaver)]

This issue was addressed via a completely different implementation in Zope 2.12.0.