RFC: Inferior command line arguments

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:

Chris> Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 15:07:51 -0400
Chris> From: Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com>

Chris> I am not sure why cygwin would need more modifications.  We try
Chris> to emulate the standard arcane Windows quoting rules.

I did a little research on this.  Back in 1999 there was a discussion
about the differences:

    http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/1999-08/msg00701.html

I couldn't find whether this had eventually been changed or not.

Eli> According to the comments and the code in src/w32proc.c in the
Eli> Emacs distribution, command lines passed to Cygwin applications
Eli> need the following special treatment:

I looked at the Emacs code too.  I'm pretty reluctant to bring it all
in, given that I don't have a Windows test environment set up.  I'm
leaning towards simply omitting this feature from the Windows port and
hoping that someone with more Windows experience will fill in the
missing code.

Tom