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Re: CreateProcess() - executed program gets different argument depending if it's compiled with gcc (cygwin) or cl (VS)?
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 7:02 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin)
<reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com> wrote:
> On 02/18/2010 12:55 PM, Piotr Krukowiecki wrote:
>> - 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)
> '\' 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.
"\\hostname" is remote path location, I don't think I can use
"//hostname" instead, either for cygwin program and especially not for
not-cygwin program, can I? (can't check it now)
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Piotr Krukowiecki
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