[PATCH v2] Cygwin: rewrite cmdline parser
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Tue Jun 30 10:30:40 GMT 2020
Hi Mingye,
On Jun 25 22:43, Mingye Wang wrote:
> This commit rewrites the cmdline parser to achieve the following:
> * MSVCRT compatibility. Except for the single-quote handling (an
> extension for compatibility with old Cygwin), the parser now
> interprets option boundaries exactly like MSVCR since 2008. This fixes
> the issue where our escaping does not work with our own parsing.
> * Clarity. Since globify() is no longer responsible for handling the
> opening and closing of quotes, the code is much simpler.
> * Sanity. The GLOB_NOCHECK flag is removed, so a failed glob correctly
> returns the literal value. Without the change, anything path-like
> would be garbled by globify's escaping.
>
> Some clarifications are made in the documentation for when globs are not
> expanded. A minor change was made to insert_file to remove the memory
> leak with multiple files.
>
> The change fixes two complaints of mine:
> * That cygwin is incompatible with its own escape.[1]
> * That there is no way to echo `C:\"` from win32.[2]
> [1]: https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2020-June/245162.html
> [2]: https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2019-October/242790.html
>
> (It's never the point to spawn cygwin32 from cygwin64. Consistency
> matters: with yourself always, and with the outside world when you are
> supposed to.)
Apart from the small free() problem, you mention in your reply to self,
this patch looks great at first glance.
Three questions/requests if you don't mind:
- Would you mind to send the corrected version yet?
- A contribution like this still(*) requires the 2-clause BSD waiver per
the winsup/CONTRIBUTORS file, see the chapter "Before you get started"
on https://cygwin.com/contrib.html
- Can you please take a bit of time and try to outline in how far this
change introduces backward compatibility problems with the old code?
I don't mean the obvious bug like the backslash problem, but rather
the question is, what input did something useful before which doesn't
work the same way now? I'd like to get a feeling how much this may
affect existing scripts.
Thanks,
Corinna
(*) IIRC, 2020 is the last year requiring this...
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Corinna Vinschen
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