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Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 13:39:49 -0400
From: "Lev Bishop" <lev DOT bishop AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Bizarre Cygwin/Explorer/paths problem half-solved
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On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 12:28, Christopher Faylor  wrote:

>> Is there any documentation on who rewrites arguments, under what
>> conditions, and how they're altered?
>
> I missed this when it was first mentioned.  Cygwin doesn't munge command
> line arguments.  Why would it assume that /e,something was a windows
> path?  That makes no sense.

Nobody is munging anything.

What's going on here is as simple as the difference:

bash-3.2$ cmd /c echo "a b c"
"a b c"
bash-3.2$ cmd /c echo a b c
a b c

There's really no more to it than that.

Lev

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