282808 - 'WinExec' is deprecated (in obsolete/nsFileSpecWin.cpp)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 514131

(Core :: XPCOM, defect)

Description

[David Gardiner]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

Running PREfast static code analysis gives the following warning:

nsfilespecwin.cpp(641) : warning 301: 'WinExec' is deprecated: please refer to
MSDN for more details.
problem occurs in function 'nsFileSpec::Execute'

According to
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dllproc/base/winexec.asp
applications should use the CreateProcess API instead. We don't support 16bit
anymore so I think this is reasonable.

-dave

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

nsFileSpec is obsolete.  I would hope, if at all possible, we fix the callers of
nsFileSpec to use nsLocalFile instead of fixing nsFileSpec.

Comment 2

[Darin Fisher]

Yeah, let's just remove nsFileSpec :)

Comment 3

[Makoto Kato [:m_kato]]

By bug 514131, nsFileSpec was removed.