Re: [PATCH] fmt-merge-msg: avoid open "-|" list form for Perl 5.6

From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 2, 2006, 16:11 UTC
Message-ID: <81b0412b0603020811r37edca03wde5562b926dab549@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <slrne0e36r.fr9.mdw@metalzone.distorted.org.uk>

On 3/2/06, Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk> wrote:

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> > 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.

Doesn't for programs using WinMain, which is probably 90% of all windows programs.

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