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From:	David Allsopp <david AT allsopps DOT net>
To:	Aaron Digulla <digulla AT hepe DOT com>, "cygwin AT cygwin DOT com" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject:	RE: Formatting command line arguments when starting a Cygwin process from a native process
Date:	Mon, 9 May 2016 15:19:42 +0000
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Aaron Digulla wrote:
> 
> Am Samstag, 07. Mai 2016 09:45 CEST, "David Allsopp" <dra27 AT cantab DOT net>
> schrieb:
> 
> 
> > > Then all you need is a rudimentary quoting.
> >
> > Yes, but the question still remains what that rudimentary quoting is -
> i.e.
> > I can see how to quote spaces which appear in elements of argv, but I
> > cannot see how to quote double quotes!
> 
> This should help:
> https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/twistylittlepassagesallalike/2011/04/23/e
> veryone-quotes-command-line-arguments-the-wrong-way/

This provides documentation for how Microsoft implementations do it, not how Cygwin does it. The Cygwin DLL is responsible for determining how a Cygwin process gets argc and argv from GetCommandLineW.

> My line of thought is that Cygwin can't get anything which Windows can't
> send it. So the first step to solve this mess is to make sure the
> arguments which you send to CreateProcess() are correct.
> 
> The next step would be to write a small C utility which dumps it's
> arguments, so you can properly debug all kinds of characters.

See later email, but IMHO the conversion is something Cygwin should have precisely documented, not determined by brittle experimentation.

> PS: I always point people to string list/array type methods to create
> processes which fix all the problems with spaces and odd characters
> (quotes, umlauts, etc). It seems that Windows doesn't have such a method
> to create processes. Which kind of makes sense; Windows is very, very
> mouse centered.

I fail to see the connection with mice! What Windows (NT) does have is a legacy where the decision on how to convert a command line to a list/array of arguments is determined per-process (and so not the responsibility of command line shells) vs Unix which puts the burden of converting a single command line to the array on the shell instead. Nominally, the Windows way is more flexible, though I don't think that flexibility is actually useful (especially if you look at the comments in the command line -> argv conversion in Microsoft's C Runtime library!). 


David

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