From: Mingye Wang <arthur200126@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [bug] globify dospath reacts poorly with escaped double quotes
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2019 08:30:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAD66C+YN9n6t+z2RDJvOJshZoxgSWXsqvwpT1cyknoGEm0U3uQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
On Tue, 8 Oct 2019 14:09:18 -0600, Brian Inglis wrote:
> Msys2 tools have to make their own arrangements if they support native Windows
> paths.
> Personally I found when I used to use DOS and Windows tools, it was easier using
> slashes instead of backslashes as directory separators, as most interfaces did
> not care, including most DOS & Windows APIs.
Use the source, Luke. Globbing on the cmdline, as we all know, is
something you only
care about when you are *not* passing in arguments from a Unix-type cmdline, and
build_argv in dcrt0.cc does *only* run globify if the parent process is *not*
Cygwin-powered.
> Backslash escaping and switching enclosing quotes on shell command lines...
See above.
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2019-10-10 8:30 Mingye Wang [this message]
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2019-10-08 9:05 Mingye Wang
2019-10-08 20:09 ` Brian Inglis
2019-10-10 16:37 ` Brian Inglis
2019-10-10 13:13 ` Ken Brown
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