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


On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 02:47:43PM -0500, Tim McDaniel wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Aug 2008, Christopher Faylor 
> <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com> 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.
>
> Well, *something* had to be adding the double-quotes.  It's execve()
> and such adding them, then?

I said cygwin1.dll.  Isn't that all-encompassing enough?

cgf

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