Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Mysterious gdb behavior. From: Robert Collins To: derbyshire@globalserve.net Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com In-Reply-To: <3D43020A.30440.5155C2C9@localhost> References: <3D42F785.22663.512CA9BB@localhost> <3D43020A.30440.5155C2C9@localhost> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-eW7TTOgBmDxNX79tbOiW" Date: 28 Jul 2002 10:54:23 +1000 Message-Id: <1027817663.1910.36.camel@lifelesswks> Mime-Version: 1.0 --=-eW7TTOgBmDxNX79tbOiW Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 2002-07-28 at 10:26, Paul Derbyshire wrote: > On 27 Jul 2002 at 17:01, Michael A Chase wrote: > > Try looking at it with a fixed pitch font. I suspect he's pointing out > > that gdb, like many UNIX programs, doesn't deal well with spaces in fil= e or > > directory names. >=20 > And why, pray tell, does it have to? The image I was debugging was in=20 > the current directory. It shouldn't care what the path name looks=20 > like. It has to because it can't assume that a given image will always be accessed by a relative path, and that it won't collide with something in the PATH variable. =20 > Also, Windows API calls should deal with it just fine. It's a Windows=20 > API call that's failing, according to one of the other posters. It's a windows API error code that is being reported. It may or may not be a windows API error - it may be unix orientated code doing the wrong thing.=20 =20 > Also, if path names with spaces in are problems, then explain why=20 > Cygwin's installer *automatically created* that directory and made it=20 > my home directory?=20 Because we're mean.=20 Rob --=-eW7TTOgBmDxNX79tbOiW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEABECAAYFAj1DQL8ACgkQI5+kQ8LJcoJ1sQCfRu8mEZ+t1dPJxFgUQrwXKZnA JscAnA2szw2P2eEMyTPYvxp6L8IBjkQk =Mrlg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-eW7TTOgBmDxNX79tbOiW--