X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:42:39 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: CreateProcess() - executed program gets different argument depending if it's compiled with gcc (cygwin) or cl (VS)? Message-ID: <20100218204239.GX5683@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <98f79fac1002180955m1ddea014id0b27cc3b909a17a@mail.gmail.com> <4B7D80B3.4000300@cygwin.com> <98f79fac1002181224g7987690dn6822d025d1a59405@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <98f79fac1002181224g7987690dn6822d025d1a59405@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) 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 Feb 18 21:24, Piotr Krukowiecki wrote: > 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.  In Windows, it's a > > path separator.  Use '/' instead when working with Cygwin and you'll > > avoid allot of problems.  Better 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) Yes, you can use forward slashes, even in Win32 calls. In Cygwin you *should* use them, otherwise you lose certain functionality. The next version of the Cygwin User's Guide, which will come with Cygwin 1.7.2, adds additional description about this. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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