From: Christopher Faylor <me@cgf.cx>
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 15:22:19 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fmt-merge-msg: avoid open "-|" list form for Perl 5.6
Message-ID: <20060302152219.GG2781@trixie.casa.cgf.cx>
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0603020618q3b205cdeuabc7e204044cca5b@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 03:18:44PM +0100, Alex Riesen wrote:
>On 2/26/06, Christopher Faylor <me@cgf.cx> wrote:
>> The cygwin/windows version of spawn is basically like an extended version
>> of exec*():
>>
>> pid = spawnlp (P_NOWAIT, "/bin/ls", "ls", "-l", NULL);
>>
>
>By the way, is argv worked around?
>AFAIK, windows has only one argument, returned by GetCommandLine?

Cygwin passes an argv list between cygwin processes and a quoted command
line to pure windows processes.

cgf