From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Wooding Subject: Re: [PATCH] fmt-merge-msg: avoid open "-|" list form for Perl 5.6 Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 15:18:51 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Straylight/Edgeware development Message-ID: References: <81b0412b0602230000t58a88af6na1aa7e323dc0179d@mail.gmail.com> <81b0412b0602230135w472aa6f3v72980f6f63bb355f@mail.gmail.com> <81b0412b0602230141g46dbfaev6baa5083dee2d42@mail.gmail.com> <43FD84EB.3040704@op5.se> <81b0412b0602230210r3ffe6e2dta5dc86d6516692b9@mail.gmail.com> <43FDB8CC.5000503@op5.se> <81b0412b0602230607n22146a77k36929f0ad9e44d53@mail.gmail.com> <20060226195552.GA30735@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <20060226204027.GC30735@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <81b0412b0603020618q3b205cdeuabc7e204044cca5b@mail.gmail.com> X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Mar 02 16:19:41 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FEpaI-0000ay-Ur for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 02 Mar 2006 16:19:19 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751283AbWCBPS4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Mar 2006 10:18:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751421AbWCBPS4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Mar 2006 10:18:56 -0500 Received: from excessus.demon.co.uk ([83.105.60.35]:43396 "HELO metalzone.distorted.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751283AbWCBPSz (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Mar 2006 10:18:55 -0500 Received: (qmail 26768 invoked by uid 110); 2 Mar 2006 15:18:51 -0000 To: git@vger.kernel.org Received: (qmail 26755 invoked by uid 9); 2 Mar 2006 15:18:51 -0000 Path: not-for-mail Newsgroups: mail.vger.git NNTP-Posting-Host: metalzone.distorted.org.uk X-Trace: metalzone.distorted.org.uk 1141312731 26015 172.29.199.2 (2 Mar 2006 15:18:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@distorted.org.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 15:18:51 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1pl1 (Debian) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: "Alex Riesen" wrote: > AFAIK, windows has only one argument, returned by GetCommandLine? This is true, but there's a standard quoting convention which (in particular) Microsoft's C library uses to split the single argument back into an argv. The spawn* functions quote; the C library startup stuff unquotes and splits. The actual quoting convention is /horrible/. I had to implement the darned thing once. See http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/1999-08/msg00701.html for the details. -- [mdw]