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Sean Montgomery commented on SUREFIRE-551:
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Easiest way to reproduce is:

1. Create a maven 2 project in a path with "(" character
2. run: mvn test
3. Notice:

[INFO] [surefire:test]
[INFO] Surefire report directory: /opt/paml/TestMaven (TEST)/target/surefire-reports
/bin/sh: Syntax error: "(" unexpected
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] There are test failures.


> On Linux (Ubuntu) it fails to escape all special characters when forking commands.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: SUREFIRE-551
>                 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/SUREFIRE-551
>             Project: Maven Surefire
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: process forking
>    Affects Versions: 2.4.2
>         Environment: Maven version: 2.0.9
> Java version: 1.6.0_13
> OS name: "linux" version: "2.6.28-11-server" arch: "amd64" Family: "unix"
>            Reporter: Sean Montgomery
>            Priority: Blocker
>
> Our project folder name has ()'s in it and this seems to be causing a problem for surefire as it is not escaping them when forking off.
> [INFO] Surefire report directory: /opt/paml/hudson/jobs/Site - XXX (1234)/workspace/trunk/target/surefire-reports
> Forking command line: /bin/sh -c "cd /opt/paml/hudson/jobs/Site\ -\ XXX\ (1234)/workspace/trunk && /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.13/jre/bin/java -jar /tmp/surefirebooter7806691896360428397.jar /tmp/surefire3396974786525533977tmp /tmp/surefire4621871739825375135tmp"
> /bin/sh: Syntax error: "(" unexpected
> [ERROR] There are test failures.

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