X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SARE_MSGID_LONG40,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4B7D80B3.4000300@cygwin.com> References: <98f79fac1002180955m1ddea014id0b27cc3b909a17a@mail.gmail.com> <4B7D80B3.4000300@cygwin.com> Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:24:34 +0100 Message-ID: <98f79fac1002181224g7987690dn6822d025d1a59405@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: CreateProcess() - executed program gets different argument depending if it's compiled with gcc (cygwin) or cl (VS)? From: Piotr Krukowiecki To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 7:02 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > On 02/18/2010 12:55 PM, Piotr Krukowiecki wrote: >> - if the executed program is compiled with cygwin's gcc the program >> receives \127.0.0.127\foo.cxx (just one backslash at the begining). >> - if it's compiled with cl it gets \\127.0.0.127\foo.cxx (double >> backslash - what I expected) > '\' is an escape character in C, Unix, and Linux. =A0In Windows, it's a > path separator. =A0Use '/' instead when working with Cygwin and you'll > avoid allot of problems. =A0Better yet, use POSIX paths exclusively. "\\hostname" is remote path location, I don't think I can use "//hostname" instead, either for cygwin program and especially not for not-cygwin program, can I? (can't check it now) --=20 Piotr Krukowiecki -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple