Thank you for your response. It may sound plausible but: > you tell Cygwin that you want posix semantics
I can't remember seeing that posix semantics require a C library call to modify arguments in the way the shell does; since when cygwin a shell? > split arg 2 into two args: "DIR" and "C:\\" and why does it make a difference, all of a sudden? (posix rules no longer apply to more than 2 arguments?) also, if "\\" is followed by an additional space, "DIR C:\\ ", then it begins to work as well. > Cygwin cannot make exceptions for individual applications right! because cygwin does already know a lot about cmd.exe and command.com and treats them very specially in case of a "/c" switch followed by exactly one argument! take a look at spawn.cc. btw, on linux, strace for execl() shows no substitution of a lone backslash passed in an argument... not posix complying, too? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
