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Subject:	Re: 1.7.0-48: [BUG] Passing characters above 128 from bash command line
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Edward Lam wrote:
> Hi Cygwin 1.7 developers,
> 
> I think I've encountered bug in cygwin 1.7.0-48 on WinXP 32-bit. It 
> seems that passing a character on the command line (from either ash.exe 
> or bash.exe) that is greater than 127 to a native win32 process results 
> in arguments being truncated.
> 
> Hopefully you can reproduce and fix. Steps to reproduce outlined below.
> 
> $ cat bug.c
> #include <stdio.h>
> 
> int main(int argc, char *argv[])
> {
>     int i;
>     for (i = 0; i < argc; i++)
>         printf("%d: %s\n", i, argv[i]);
>     return 0;
> }
> 
> $ xxd copyright.txt
> 0000000: a9                                       .
> 
> $ $TOOLROOT/bin/cl -I$TOOLROOT/include bug.c /link 
> /libpath:$TOOLROOT/lib /libpath:$TOOLROOT/PlatformSDK/lib
> 
> Microsoft (R) 32-bit C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 13.10.3077 for 80x86
> Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 1984-2002. All rights reserved.
> 
> bug.c
> Microsoft (R) Incremental Linker Version 7.10.3077
> Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
> 
> /out:bug.exe
> /libpath:e:/msdev7/vc7/lib
> /libpath:e:/msdev7/vc7/PlatformSDK/lib
> bug.obj
> 
> $ ./bug "before `cat copyright.txt` after"
> 0: E:\cygwin1.7\tmp\bug.exe
> 1: before
> 
> Notice that for argument 1, we never see the contents of copyright.txt 
> and the text after it, "after" is never passed to the win32 native 
> application.

This sounds allot like this report to me:

<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-05/msg00611.html>

No?

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