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Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:09:48 +0400
From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon AT freemail DOT ru>
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Subject: Re: it seems a bug inside cygwin in parsing command line with double quotes and backslashes
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Greetings, Dmitry Bolshakov!

> when launching cygwin's programs from within windows's cmd
> if the command line parameter has two backslashes and is double quoted (e.g. a path to local network drive)
> then inside cygwin's program the corresponding ARGV element has single backslash only
> but without double quotes all is ok - both backslashes are kept

You can start right there:
http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2011-06/msg00246.html

> simple testcase

Mine's simpler.


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Andrey Repin (anrdaemon AT freemail DOT ru) 12.12.2011, <21:08>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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