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Re: Bizarre Cygwin/Explorer/paths problem half-solved


On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 03:29:48PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 01:58:12PM -0500, Tim McDaniel wrote:
>>That's most unpleasant.  I don't suppose there's any way to control
>>Cygwin's bash in re where to put double quotes around arguments being
>>passed to a Windows command (since getting Microsoft to make
>>explorer.exe be sane is hopeless)?  Except by not using characters that
>>bash thinks need quoting.
>
>I'd be very surprised if bash was doing anything different for Windows
>than it does for linux.  cygwin1.dll does do some quoting of arguments
>to non-cygwin programs if it thinks it is required.  But, no, we're not
>going to implement a complicated scheme to turn that off for random
>programs.  If you don't like the behavior, right a C program to fix
                                            write
>things up.

Right.

cgf

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