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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 11:55:55 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: cygwin1.dll mangling command line args
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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<argc; 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

"Patches gratefully accepted" (tm)

cgf

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