Re: Checked in: [RFA/commit/Windows] run program with space in path to exe.

Christopher Faylor
2012-10-25T02:48:49Z

On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 11:01:51AM -0400, Joel Brobecker wrote:
>> Ah. The "image name" is a mandatory argument on Windows CE, not optional.
>> Are you saying that that would be an alternative fix for gdb? Or is there a
>> downside? (Wondering in the sake of convergence in the code bases.)
>
>We can provide the image name, but we still need to quote it in
>the command line, because otherwise, argv is improperly computed.
>For instance, instead of being:
>
> ["/path/to/space dir/exe", "arg1"]
>
>The program would see:
>
> ["/path/to/space", "dir/exe", "arg1"]
>
>/me wishes that CreateProcess was taking a list of arguments, rather
>than a string of space-separated tokens....

Yeah, tell me about it. We actually pass a real argv list in Cygwin.
The "one long command line" method is rather dumb. Much of the Windows
API is not that bad but this is, IMO, one glaring flaw.

cgf