On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 10:26:13AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Yitzchak, > > On Jan 19 15:34, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > > > $ ./nocygparent cygchild > > > [a\b"c] > > > > Can anybody else confirm this? > > I can. I already had a look into this. The command line handling in > Cygwin is different from the command line handling in MingW or, FWIW, > VC++ CLI applications. > > The question is if we really should align the rules how a native > command line is evaluated by a Cygwin process should be aligned > to Windows rules or not. > > There are three arguments to consider: > > - Using Windows/MingW rules lowers the surprise. > > - Changing the rules at all breaks backward compatibility. > > - Why shouldn't Cygwin applications use their own rules which seem > more appropriate for a POSIX application?
Corinna, have you a chance to think about this? I've come to think that using the MinGW rules makes most sense. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/