From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tom Tromey To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: cgf@redhat.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: RFC: Inferior command line arguments Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 08:07:00 -0000 Message-id: <873d53l75p.fsf@creche.redhat.com> References: <87zo7gq7gb.fsf@creche.redhat.com> <2593-Fri28Sep2001103201+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> <87u1xnh4ns.fsf@creche.redhat.com> <4331-Fri28Sep2001162207+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> <8766a3gy0m.fsf@creche.redhat.com> <1858-Fri28Sep2001182535+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> <20010930150751.A32444@redhat.com> <1659-Mon01Oct2001094011+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> X-SW-Source: 2001-10/msg00005.html >>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii writes: Chris> Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 15:07:51 -0400 Chris> From: Christopher Faylor Chris> I am not sure why cygwin would need more modifications. We try Chris> to emulate the standard arcane Windows quoting rules. I did a little research on this. Back in 1999 there was a discussion about the differences: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/1999-08/msg00701.html I couldn't find whether this had eventually been changed or not. Eli> According to the comments and the code in src/w32proc.c in the Eli> Emacs distribution, command lines passed to Cygwin applications Eli> need the following special treatment: I looked at the Emacs code too. I'm pretty reluctant to bring it all in, given that I don't have a Windows test environment set up. I'm leaning towards simply omitting this feature from the Windows port and hoping that someone with more Windows experience will fill in the missing code. Tom