Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-WM-Posted-At: avacado.atomice.net; Mon, 15 Jul 02 19:23:04 +0100 Message-ID: <010d01c22c2c$a8dc2ca0$0100a8c0@advent02> From: "Chris January" To: References: <20020715155555.GC26820@redhat.com> Subject: Re: cygwin1.dll mangling command line args Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 19:23:03 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Faylor" To: Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 4:55 PM Subject: Re: cygwin1.dll mangling command line args > On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 10:08:35AM -0400, Mark Blackburn wrote: > >Observe the following testcases > > > >test.c: > >int main(int argc, char** argv) > >{ > > int i; > > for (i=0; i > printf("%s\n",argv[i]); > >} > > > >D:\home\windows\desktop>gcc test.c -o test -mno-cygwin > > > >D:\home\windows\desktop>test \\mark\share "\\mark\share" > >test > >\\mark\share > >\\mark\share > > > >Everything is fine here. > > > >D:\home\windows\desktop>gcc test.c -o test > > > >D:\home\windows\desktop>test \\mark\share "\\mark\share" > >test > >\\mark\share > >\mark\share > > > >The second argument in the quotes loses a backslash This is correct - the first \ in the quotes escapes the second. Chris -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/