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Subject: Re: Bizarre Cygwin/Explorer/paths problem half-solved
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On Fri, 8 Aug 2008, Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please AT cygwin DOT com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 01:58:12PM -0500, Tim McDaniel wrote:
>> That's most unpleasant.  I don't suppose there's any way to control
>> Cygwin's bash in re where to put double quotes around arguments
>> being passed to a Windows command (since getting Microsoft to make
>> explorer.exe be sane is hopeless)?  Except by not using characters
>> that bash thinks need quoting.
>
> I'd be very surprised if bash was doing anything different for
> Windows than it does for linux.  cygwin1.dll does do some quoting of
> arguments to non-cygwin programs if it thinks it is required.

Well, *something* had to be adding the double-quotes.  It's execve()
and such adding them, then?

> But, no, we're not going to implement a complicated scheme to turn
> that off for random programs.

-- 
Tim McDaniel, tmcd AT panix DOT com

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