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From: "Chris January" <chris AT atomice DOT net>
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Subject: Re: cygwin1.dll mangling command line args
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 19:23:03 +0100
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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<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
This is correct - the first \ in the quotes escapes the second.

Chris



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