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I think that you are right in saying this is not a cygwin bug.  Upon 
further investigation, it seems it is a cmd misfeature.  Would a patch 
to oddly quote things that spawn_guts "knew" would be passed off to cmd 
be accepted, given that it would not be a fix, but a kludgy workaround? 
  Or would it be rejected on the grounds that it would possibly 
introduce instability and future traps?

Johnathon

Sean Daley wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure if it was ever fully decided that this was a cygwin bug since
> windows cmd can also exhibit similar behavior.
> 
> I was the original poster back then.  I eventually just worked around
> the issue by
> writing a native executable that did the same things the batch job was
> supposed to do.  Chris' suggestion of shell scripts also works as well.
> 
> Sean
> 


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