<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU>. Reformatted.
Johnathon Jamison wrote:
Sean Daley wrote:
I'm not sure if it was ever fully decided that this was a cygwin bug
since
windows cmd can also exhibit similar behavior.
I was the original poster back then. I eventually just worked around
the issue by
writing a native executable that did the same things the batch job was
supposed to do. Chris' suggestion of shell scripts also works as well.
Sean
I think that you are right in saying this is not a cygwin bug. Upon
further investigation, it seems it is a cmd misfeature. Would a patch
to oddly quote things that spawn_guts "knew" would be passed off to cmd
be accepted, given that it would not be a fix, but a kludgy workaround?
Or would it be rejected on the grounds that it would possibly introduce
instability and future traps?
Given your description, I think the patch would likely be rejected. Certainly
if there were a reasonable patch that addressed this issue in a maintainable
way, then it would certainly be considered. But it's impossible to say for
sure what will and will not be accepted without a patch on which to judge
the merits. It is fair to say that if you feel the patch is dubious, others
will likely agree.
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