Sadly it did not. I've worked around it using the environment variables, which 
do permit the escaping.

-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> 
Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2021 16:22
To: Commons Users List <user@commons.apache.org>
Subject: Re: [daemon] Escaping the colon

Did that fix it?

Gary

On Tue, Aug 17, 2021, 03:28 Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote:

> Please try again with single quotes rather than double quotes. i.e.
>
> -Dfoo='bar;zar'
>
> Mark
>
>
> On 17/08/2021 07:43, Gridinas, Mantas wrote:
> > I did test that prior writing the message. Result was the following:
> >
> > -Dfoo=bar
> > zar
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com>
> > Sent: Monday, August 16, 2021 19:17
> > To: Commons Users List <user@commons.apache.org>
> > Subject: Re: [daemon] Escaping the colon
> >
> > What happens if you say:
> >
> > -Dfoo="bar;zar"
> >
> > Gary
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 16, 2021, 11:54 Gridinas, Mantas <
> mantas.gridi...@storebrand.no>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Hi!
> >>
> >> I've come into a bit of a pickle. I'm trying to pass the following 
> >> value as my argument for a system property -Dfoo=bar;zar Which 
> >> results in the following usage of ++StartParams
> >> ++StartParams=-Dfoo=bar;zar
> >>
> >> In my JVM I am using `System.getProperty("foo")` to read the the 
> >> expected value of "bar;zar", but instead procsrv.exe considers that 
> >> zar should be a different argument which in turn causes the 
> >> java.exe think that zar is the main class name for application 
> >> instead. How do I go about escaping the colon in startparams?
> >>
> >> Cheers!
> >> // Mantas
> >>
> >
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