CreateProcess() - executed program gets different argument depending if it's compiled with gcc (cygwin) or cl (VS)?

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

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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