From: JRSON@NetZero.Net (John R Hanson)
To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: cygwin->msvcrt argv expansion algorithems
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 13:28:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <38540eca.57391929@smtp.netzero.net> (raw)
Message-ID: <19991231132800.lOM_aMPS90rwQq4qCdqdd2ZO8bXGx_mYp1-lTkatP3w@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19991212163831.B826@cygnus.com>
This is pursuant to the discussion of several months
ago about make and interfacing with msvc/mingw32 binaries.
cygwin is not microsoft compatible regarding command
line quoting , so you asked for patches to fix it.
I know nothing about cygwin so here are the algorithms,
someone who knows about cygwin can figure out the fix.
On Sun, 12 Dec 1999 16:38:31 -0500, you wrote:
>On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 07:43:34PM +0000, John R Hanson wrote:
>>You would know better than I where these need to be slotted
>>into the cygwin .dll.
>
>I guess if I took some time, I could probably figure out what "these"
>are. This seems to have something to do with command line quoting,
>obviously. And, you want to plug it into cygwin somewhere.
>
>But I'm sorry to say that I'm not going to take time to investigate
>hundred of lines of code, especially when I have no clear idea what
>it's for.
>
>If this is intended to replace one of cygwin's quoting methods, it's
>unlikely that I'd consider doing that without an extremely compelling
>rationale for doing so. "It doesn't handle all of the cases that MSVC
>does" is *not* a reason for throwing everything away, btw.
>
>Sorry,
>Chris
>
>>--- Cut Here ----------------------------------------------------------
>> /* this is an example program for encoding and decoding
>> command lines to be used when starting a subprocess
>> via CreateProcess
>> compile with
>> gcc -oCreateP CreateP.c
>> */
>>[snip]
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-12-31 13:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-12-12 12:33 John R Hanson
1999-12-12 13:38 ` Chris Faylor
1999-12-12 14:04 ` John R Hanson [this message]
1999-12-12 17:06 ` Chris Faylor
1999-12-31 13:28 ` Chris Faylor
1999-12-31 13:28 ` John R Hanson
1999-12-31 13:28 ` Chris Faylor
1999-12-31 13:28 ` John R Hanson
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