Mark Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've created a new 4.2 Project page for "response files", which is > what Microsoft calls files that contain command-line options. > Conventionally, if you pass "@file" as an argument to a program, the > file is read, and the contents are treated as command-line options. > On systems with small command-line buffers, this is a must-have > feature.
DJGPP and Cygwin already implement these at the OS level, for *all* applications, and have for quite some time now. Please don't interfere with this; it will only confuse DJGPP and Cygwin users, especially since your implementation is already different than existing implementations. Also, both DJGPP and Cygwin programs have essentially unlimited command line buffers when invoked from other DJGPP or Cygwin programs (like "make"); they use an internal interface to bypass the OS limitations. It sounds like you're interested in MinGW. If you really wanted to help MinGW users, you'd fix MinGW so that it supported these the same way that DJGPP and Cygwin do, for *all* MinGW applications, not just gcc. I'd have to have to manually add this function call to each of the programs in binutils, gdb, sid, fileutils, coreutils, make, etc. That sounds like the wrong way to solve an OS problem.
