Re: Checked in: [RFA/commit/Windows] run program with space in path to exe.

[Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>]

On 10/24/2012 04:01 PM, Joel Brobecker wrote:
>> Ah.  The "image name" is a mandatory argument on Windows CE, not optional.
>> Are you saying that that would be an alternative fix for gdb?  Or is there a
>> downside?  (Wondering in the sake of convergence in the code bases.)
> 
> We can provide the image name, but we still need to quote it in
> the command line, because otherwise, argv is improperly computed.
> For instance, instead of being:
> 
>   ["/path/to/space dir/exe", "arg1"]
> 
> The program would see:
> 
>   ["/path/to/space", "dir/exe", "arg1"]
> 

I see, thanks.

> /me wishes that CreateProcess was taking a list of arguments, rather
> than a string of space-separated tokens....

:-)

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Pedro Alves