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<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU>.  Reformatted.

Johnathon Jamison wrote:
> Sean Daley wrote:
>>
>> I'm not sure if it was ever fully decided that this was a cygwin bug 
>> since
>> windows cmd can also exhibit similar behavior.
>>
>> I was the original poster back then.  I eventually just worked around
>> the issue by
>> writing a native executable that did the same things the batch job was
>> supposed to do.  Chris' suggestion of shell scripts also works as well.
>>
>> Sean
>>
> I think that you are right in saying this is not a cygwin bug.  Upon 
> further investigation, it seems it is a cmd misfeature.  Would a patch 
> to oddly quote things that spawn_guts "knew" would be passed off to cmd 
> be accepted, given that it would not be a fix, but a kludgy workaround? 
>  Or would it be rejected on the grounds that it would possibly introduce 
> instability and future traps?


Given your description, I think the patch would likely be rejected.  Certainly
if there were a reasonable patch that addressed this issue in a maintainable
way, then it would certainly be considered.  But it's impossible to say for
sure what will and will not be accepted without a patch on which to judge
the merits.  It is fair to say that if you feel the patch is dubious, others
will likely agree.


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