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Re: CreateProcess() - executed program gets different argument depending if it's compiled with gcc (cygwin) or cl (VS)?
- From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:02:27 -0500
- Subject: Re: CreateProcess() - executed program gets different argument depending if it's compiled with gcc (cygwin) or cl (VS)?
- References: <98f79fac1002180955m1ddea014id0b27cc3b909a17a@mail.gmail.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On 02/18/2010 12:55 PM, Piotr Krukowiecki wrote:
Hello,
In short, I have a problem with passing "\\127.0.0.127\foo.cxx"
argument to a called program:
- if the executed program is compiled with cygwin's gcc the program
receives \127.0.0.127\foo.cxx (just one backslash at the begining).
- if it's compiled with cl it gets \\127.0.0.127\foo.cxx (double
backslash - what I expected)
I suspect cygwin incorrectly mangles backslashes in this case - or
maybe I'm quoting it incorrectly, or it is Windows fault?
'\' is an escape character in C, Unix, and Linux. In Windows, it's a
path separator. Use '/' instead when working with Cygwin and you'll
avoid allot of problems. Better yet, use POSIX paths exclusively.
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