From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@delorie.com>
To: tromey@redhat.com
Cc: deephan@erols.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] specify arguments to debugee from commandline (second try)
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 01:36:00 -0000
Message-id: <200104060836.EAA17725@indy.delorie.com>
References: <20010330005457.A21793@llamedos.org> <20010330163603.A27435@llamedos.org> <87pueqirpz.fsf@creche.redhat.com>
X-SW-Source: 2001-04/msg00053.html

> From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
> Date: 05 Apr 2001 22:20:56 -0600
> 
> I believe for this to work properly the code that calls
> set_inferior_arg() must quote the strings for the shell.  This isn't
> too hard to do -- simply put a `\' before each special character.

This quoting will only work on Unix and GNU/Linux platforms.