Use ShellExecute rather than start.exe on windows

The code is adapted from rustup. Using ShellExecute is more efficient
and allows much better error handling. It also avoids some bugs, which
is the reason rustup switched to using this method.

Fixes #16

Author: Seeker14491

Cargo.toml

@@ -13,3 +13,6 @@ documentation = "http://byron.github.io/open-rs"
 test = false
 doc = false
 name = "open"
+
+[target.'cfg(windows)'.dependencies]
+winapi = { version = "0.3", features = ["shellapi"] }

src/lib.rs

@@ -37,9 +37,15 @@
 //! }
 //! # }
 //! ```
+#[cfg(windows)]
+extern crate winapi;
+
+#[cfg(not(target_os = "windows"))]
+use std::process::Command;
+
 use std::ffi::OsStr;
 use std::io;
-use std::process::{Command, ExitStatus};
+use std::process::ExitStatus;
 
 #[cfg(not(any(target_os = "windows", target_os = "macos")))]
 pub fn that<T: AsRef<OsStr> + Sized>(path: T) -> io::Result<ExitStatus> {
@@ -59,22 +65,53 @@ pub fn that<T: AsRef<OsStr> + Sized>(path: T) -> io::Result<ExitStatus> {
 
 #[cfg(target_os = "windows")]
 pub fn that<T: AsRef<OsStr> + Sized>(path: T) -> io::Result<ExitStatus> {
-    Command::new("cmd")
-        .arg("/C")
-        .arg("start")
-        .arg("")
-        .arg({
-            let path_ref = path.as_ref();
-            match path_ref.to_str() {
-                Some(s) => s.replace("&", "^&"),
-                None => path_ref,
-            }
-        })
-        .spawn()?
-        .wait()
+    use winapi::ctypes::c_int;
+    use winapi::um::shellapi::ShellExecuteW;
+    use std::os::windows::ffi::OsStrExt;
+    use std::os::windows::process::ExitStatusExt;
+    use std::ptr;
+
+    const SW_SHOW: c_int = 5;
+
+    let path = windows::convert_path(path.as_ref())?;
+    let operation: Vec<u16> = OsStr::new("open\0").encode_wide().collect();
+    let result = unsafe {
+        ShellExecuteW(
+            ptr::null_mut(),
+            operation.as_ptr(),
+            path.as_ptr(),
+            ptr::null(),
+            ptr::null(),
+            SW_SHOW,
+        )
+    };
+    if result as c_int > 32 {
+        Ok(ExitStatus::from_raw(0))
+    } else {
+        Err(io::Error::last_os_error())
+    }
 }
 
 #[cfg(target_os = "macos")]
 pub fn that<T: AsRef<OsStr> + Sized>(path: T) -> io::Result<ExitStatus> {
     Command::new("open").arg(path.as_ref()).spawn()?.wait()
 }
+
+#[cfg(windows)]
+mod windows {
+    use std::io;
+    use std::ffi::OsStr;
+    use std::os::windows::ffi::OsStrExt;
+
+    pub fn convert_path(path: &OsStr) -> io::Result<Vec<u16>> {
+        let mut maybe_result: Vec<_> = path.encode_wide().collect();
+        if maybe_result.iter().any(|&u| u == 0) {
+            return Err(io::Error::new(
+                io::ErrorKind::InvalidInput,
+                "path contains NUL byte(s)",
+            ));
+        }
+        maybe_result.push(0);
+        Ok(maybe_result)
+    }
+}