Brian Dessent wrote: > Eric Blake wrote: > > This is because the msys shell is specially compiled with a hack that > > alters command line arguments that look like filenames into their windows > > equivalent, before invoking the child program. ... > > This is not true, the argument translation is done in the MSYS libc > runtime not in the shell, so it happens automatically whenever any MSYS > binary exec()s a non-MSYS binary.
Indeed: The conversion is done in msys-1.0.10-src.tar.bz2, file msys/1.0/10/rt/src/winsup/cygwin/spawn.cc, function spawn_guts() - a hacked version of the original Cygwin spawn.cc. Bruno
