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On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 01:48:35PM -0800, Michael G Schwern wrote: > On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 12:06:51PM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > > It's really a gray area. cygwin aims at providing a linux-like > > environment, and when one cygwin program starts another, the args are > > passed in an actual array; it's just when a non-cygwin program starts > > a cygwin program that the latter needs to perform what's usually the > > shell's job of breaking up the command line into parameters. > > > > For various and sundry reasons, in doing so, it only treats \ as an > > escape character inside of "", so something like -DXS_VERSION=\"1.04\" > > has the first \ as literal, and the second used to escape the second " > > (leaving the opening " unmatched, but there's no way to reject > > mismatched quotes as a shell would be able to do.) > > > > The only possible change I can see would be to not treat the first " > > as opening a quoted section, since there's no matching ", but the code > > that does all this is extremely hairy, and I'm really reluctant to try > > messsing with it. > > > > Are you open to trying out the patch *after* 6.26 is out? > > I'm doubtful. I like to avoid touching the XS code as much as possible. > I'd rather wait and see how Cygwin deals with it. I'll see what ideas I can come up with; it doesn't sound like anyone else will be persuing this.Thread Previous