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From: Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com>
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Date: Mon, 9 May 2016 18:02:01 +0200
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On 09/05/2016 17:49, David Allsopp wrote:
> Marco Atzeri wrote:
>>
>> Ultimate overview of MS escape howto :
>>
>> https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/twistylittlepassagesallalike/2011/04/23/e
>> veryone-quotes-command-line-arguments-the-wrong-way/
>
> This is a great article (which I'd not come across before), but this relates
> to Microsoft's mechanisms for quoting which aren't applicable here - it's
> definitely the Cygwin DLL which does it!
>
>
> David
>

Hi David,
I am puzzled, I had the impression you asked:
"I am trying to work out the precise details for character escaping when
starting a Cygwin process from a native (i.e. non-Cygwin) Windows process."

So the exec should be on "Windows process" side,
why inside the Cygwin DLL ?

Regards
Marco


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