From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 16:20:33 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fmt-merge-msg: avoid open "-|" list form for Perl 5.6
Message-ID: <81b0412b0603020820j4b71057ay8e7c1e168d5cc4@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060302152219.GG2781@trixie.casa.cgf.cx>

On 3/2/06, 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.

What for? They can't use it anyway.

$ notepad '"abc"'