Formatting command line arguments when starting a Cygwin process from a native process

Marco Atzeri marco.atzeri@gmail.com
Mon May 9 10:06:00 GMT 2016


On 09/05/2016 11:43, Peter Rosin wrote:
> Hi!

>>
>>>> I'm not using cmd, or any shell for that matter (that's actually the
>>>> point) - I am in a native Win32 process invoking a Cygwin process
>>>> directly using the Windows API's CreateProcess call. As it happens,
>>>> the program I have already has the arguments for the Cygwin process
>>>> in an array, but Windows internally requires a single command line
>>>> string (which is not in any related to Cmd).

Ultimate overview of MS escape howto :

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/twistylittlepassagesallalike/2011/04/23/everyone-quotes-command-line-arguments-the-wrong-way/

Regards
Marco



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