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

From: Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk>
Date: Mar 2, 2006, 15:18 UTC
Message-ID: <slrne0e36r.fr9.mdw@metalzone.distorted.org.uk>
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0603020618q3b205cdeuabc7e204044cca5b@mail.gmail.com>

"Alex Riesen" <raa.lkml@gmail.com> 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]

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