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From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Fails to launch batch script in some directories
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 07:55:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180424075007.GD15911@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4d7ffd56-e849-6c01-e62b-e6bab629b9d6@SystematicSw.ab.ca>

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On Apr 23 11:20, Brian Inglis wrote:
> On 2018-04-23 02:44, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Apr 23 08:43, David Macek wrote:
> >> On 21. 4. 2018 17:38, Brian Inglis wrote:
> >>> See my other post in this thread where strace shows @ handling is not involved,
> >>> as the script directory and name are normalized and converted to a win32 path
> >>> correctly, but child_info_spawn::worker does not appear to quote args with
> >>> spaces (or apostrophes) when building the command line, despite the comment near
> >>> the top of the function.
> >> Do you have a test case for this? In my testing, paths with spaces (like
> >> 'x y' instead of '@ x') work just fine.
> > Brian has a point though.  It's not a space *in* a filename, it's a
> > *trailing* space.  And that points to the cause of the problem:
> 
> No trailing space - middle char - the directory name was exactly as in the OP:
> ".../@ x/" - see strace output.

My bad.  When I read the OP I read "@ " as dir name.  I missed the "x".


Corinna

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  reply	other threads:[~2018-04-24  7:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <Alexpux/MSYS2-packages/issues/1225@github.com>
2018-04-20 12:33 ` David Macek
2018-04-20 13:11   ` Corinna Vinschen
2018-04-21 15:39     ` Brian Inglis
2018-04-23  6:43       ` David Macek
2018-04-23  8:45         ` Corinna Vinschen
2018-04-23 17:20           ` Brian Inglis
2018-04-24  7:55             ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2018-04-20 13:11   ` Brian Inglis

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