Specify /D for cmd.exe to bypass the Command Processor Autorun folder #272
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With this PR I am trying to address the issue I reported at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MJAVADOC-811
In corporate environments system admins may have configured a default directory for newly spawned cmd.exe processes which results in javadoc being executed in the wrong folder/wrong drive. By specifying the
/D
flag the cmd.exe will always execute the given command in the current working directory as expected.The surprising AutoRun behavior is explained in Microsoft's devblog: Hidden gotcha: The command processor's AutoRun setting