From: Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk>
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 15:18:51 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fmt-merge-msg: avoid open "-|" list form for Perl 5.6
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]