Dear All I found an annoying situation under NT when cvs launches child processes that are compiled with cygwin, and those parse their command-line incorrectly if their argv[0] if quoted. Recognizing that this is not a cvs problem, I assumed that, for example, c:/usr/bin/ssh.exe is not necessary to quote, as windows-NT/run.c:build_command(char**) does. There's a patch to windows-NT/run.c, that quotes arguments only if necessary: --- C:\src\cvs-1.11.1p1\windows-NT\run.c Thu Apr 19 19:29:13 2001 +++ run.c Wed May 02 10:14:24 2001 @@ -533,6 +533,7 @@ int i; len = 0; + for (i = 0; argv[i]; i++) { char *p; @@ -570,7 +571,13 @@ for (i = 0; argv[i]; i++) { char *a; - *p++ = '"'; + int need_quota = 0; + for (a = argv[i]; *a; a++) + if ( *a == ' ') { + need_quota = 1; + break; + } + if ( need_quota) *p++ = '"'; for (a = argv[i]; *a; a++) { if (*a == '"') @@ -578,7 +585,7 @@ else *p++ = *a; } - *p++ = '"'; + if ( need_quota) *p++ = '"'; *p++ = ' '; } if (p > command) ----------- The problem can be reproduced under the following conditions: $ export CVS_RSH=ssh $ cvs -d :ext:whatever.domain:/whatever/path co whatever_project of even without cvs :) - the suspect ( ssh in my case ) cannot be run successfully from within the directories with space in name. Sincerely, Dmitry Karasik NB I am not subscribed to any cvs mailing lists, so please mail me directly _______________________________________________ Bug-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-cvs