Hi,
This bug is inherited from early versions of Cygwin. It's so old that
MSYS2 has this problem too.
There is no way of conveying a double quote in an argument once
globify() decides it has seen a dospath. Neither the `\"` nor `""`
work, because they are both unified to `\"` in quoted() and turned
into a `\\` pattern in globify().
This is problematic for programmers trying to write a routine to
reliably escape an argument for the Cygwin command-line.
A way to patch the problem is with a lookahead in globify():
if (dos_spec && *s == '\\') {
/**/p++ = '\\';
/**/if (s[1] == '"' && s[2]) {
/****/*p = *++s;
/****/continue;
/**/}
}
*p = *s;
[Apologies for the formatting; the gmail web editor hates leading spaces.]
(Note: The backslash thing has always been different from the MSCRT
handling, which only transforms backslashes followed by a double
quote. But this is fine as long as we are internally consistent.
Well... is it documented anywhere?)
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Regards,
Mingye Wang
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