public inbox for cygwin@cygwin.com
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Formatting command line arguments when starting a Cygwin process from a native process
Date: Mon, 09 May 2016 10:06:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8d8fe966-caeb-491c-32e7-fc48ccd56d74@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6e1f2ba2-0c8e-4659-4c5a-d748e90c1ced@lysator.liu.se>

On 09/05/2016 11:43, Peter Rosin wrote:
> Hi!

>>
>>>> I'm not using cmd, or any shell for that matter (that's actually the
>>>> point) - I am in a native Win32 process invoking a Cygwin process
>>>> directly using the Windows API's CreateProcess call. As it happens,
>>>> the program I have already has the arguments for the Cygwin process
>>>> in an array, but Windows internally requires a single command line
>>>> string (which is not in any related to Cmd).

Ultimate overview of MS escape howto :

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/twistylittlepassagesallalike/2011/04/23/everyone-quotes-command-line-arguments-the-wrong-way/

Regards
Marco



--
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-09 10:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-05 15:24 David Allsopp
2016-05-05 16:47 ` Erik Soderquist
2016-05-06  8:03   ` David Allsopp
2016-05-06 13:17     ` Erik Soderquist
2016-05-06 14:35     ` Andrey Repin
2016-05-07  7:45       ` David Allsopp
2016-05-09  9:43         ` Peter Rosin
2016-05-09 10:06           ` Marco Atzeri [this message]
2016-05-09 15:49             ` David Allsopp
2016-05-09 16:02               ` Marco Atzeri
2016-05-09 16:14                 ` David Allsopp
2016-05-09 15:49           ` David Allsopp
2016-05-09 14:57         ` Aaron Digulla
2016-05-09 15:19           ` David Allsopp
2016-05-10 13:30             ` Aaron Digulla
2016-05-10 17:02               ` David Allsopp

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=8d8fe966-caeb-491c-32e7-fc48ccd56d74@gmail.com \
    --to=marco.atzeri@gmail.com \
    --cc=cygwin@cygwin.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).