Re: Command line processing in dcrt0.cc does not match Microsoft parsing rules

2019-09-09 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2019-09-09 12:26, Duncan Roe wrote: > On Mon, Sep 09, 2019 at 11:57:21AM -0500, Eric Blake wrote: >> On 9/9/19 11:47 AM, Stephen Provine via cygwin wrote: >>> Argh, my mistake about top posting again. My email client does not help me >>> with this by default and I have to manually construct

Re: Command line processing in dcrt0.cc does not match Microsoft parsing rules

2019-09-09 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Duncan Roe! > On Mon, Sep 09, 2019 at 11:57:21AM -0500, Eric Blake wrote: >> On 9/9/19 11:47 AM, Stephen Provine via cygwin wrote: >> > Argh, my mistake about top posting again. My email client does not help me >> > with this by default and I have to manually construct quoting of

Re: Command line processing in dcrt0.cc does not match Microsoft parsing rules

2019-09-09 Thread Duncan Roe
Hi Eric, On Mon, Sep 09, 2019 at 11:57:21AM -0500, Eric Blake wrote: > On 9/9/19 11:47 AM, Stephen Provine via cygwin wrote: > > Argh, my mistake about top posting again. My email client does not help me > > with this by default and I have to manually construct quoting of previous > > responses

Re: Command line processing in dcrt0.cc does not match Microsoft parsing rules

2019-09-09 Thread Eric Blake
On 9/9/19 11:47 AM, Stephen Provine via cygwin wrote: > Argh, my mistake about top posting again. My email client does not help me > with this by default and I have to manually construct quoting of previous > responses and delete what shouldn't be there (and missed it again). If there's > any way

RE: Command line processing in dcrt0.cc does not match Microsoft parsing rules

2019-09-09 Thread Stephen Provine via cygwin
Argh, my mistake about top posting again. My email client does not help me with this by default and I have to manually construct quoting of previous responses and delete what shouldn't be there (and missed it again). If there's any way for someone to delete my previous message from the archive,

RE: Command line processing in dcrt0.cc does not match Microsoft parsing rules

2019-09-09 Thread Stephen Provine via cygwin
hat about Node, Python, etc...) But I'm not going to push on this point as I can work around it for my case. Thanks, Stephen -Original Message- From: Andrey Repin Sent: Friday, September 6, 2019 1:35 PM To: Stephen Provine ; cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Command line processing in dcrt0

Re: Command line processing in dcrt0.cc does not match Microsoft parsing rules

2019-09-07 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2019-09-05 16:01, Stephen Provine via cygwin wrote: > On 9/5/19 2:05 PM, Eric Blake wrote: >> On 9/5/19 1:31 PM, Stephen Provine via cygwin wrote: >>> Not expected. > >> Why not? That obeyed cmd's odd rules: The moment you have a " in the >> command line, that argument continues until end of

Re: Command line processing in dcrt0.cc does not match Microsoft parsing rules

2019-09-07 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Stephen Provine! > On 2019-09-04 23:29, Brian Inglis wrote: >> As standard on Unix systems, just add another level of quoting for each >> level of >> interpretation, as bash will process that command line, then bash will >> process >> the script command line. > My mistake - I'm very

RE: Command line processing in dcrt0.cc does not match Microsoft parsing rules

2019-09-06 Thread Stephen Provine via cygwin
On 9/5/19 9:26 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > Rather, go is not passing the command line to CreateProcess in the way > that is unambiguously parseable in the manner expected by > CommandLineToArgvW. The specific example I gave is unambiguous and is parsed correctly by CommandLineToArgvW, so if the goal

Re: Command line processing in dcrt0.cc does not match Microsoft parsing rules

2019-09-05 Thread Eric Blake
On 9/5/19 6:45 PM, Stephen Provine via cygwin wrote: > > To prove it is not going through cmd.exe, I debugged the Go program > to the point that it calls the Win32 CreateProcess function, and the > first two arguments are: > > lpApplicationName: "C:\\cygwin64\\bin\\bash.exe" > lpCommandLine:

Re: RE: Command line processing in dcrt0.cc does not match Microsoft parsing rules

2019-09-05 Thread Steven Penny
On Thu, 5 Sep 2019 23:45:44, "Stephen Provine via cygwin" wrote: package main import ( "log" "os" "os/exec" ) func main() { cmd :=3D exec.Command("C:\\cygwin64\\bin\\bash.exe", "test.sh", "foo", "ba= r\"baz", "bat") cmd.Stdout =3D os.Stdout

RE: Command line processing in dcrt0.cc does not match Microsoft parsing rules

2019-09-05 Thread Stephen Provine via cygwin
On 9/5/19 5:46 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > If you start a cygwin process from Windows, then cygwin1.dll is given > only a single string, which it must parse into argv according to windows > conventions (if it does not produce the same argv[] as a windows process > using CommandLineToArgvW, then that's

Re: Command line processing in dcrt0.cc does not match Microsoft parsing rules

2019-09-05 Thread Eric Blake
On 9/5/19 5:01 PM, Stephen Provine via cygwin wrote: > On 9/5/19 2:05 PM, Eric Blake wrote: >> On 9/5/19 1:31 PM, Stephen Provine via cygwin wrote: >>> Not expected. > >> Why not? That obeyed cmd's odd rules: The moment you have a " in the >> command line, that argument continues until end of

RE: Command line processing in dcrt0.cc does not match Microsoft parsing rules

2019-09-05 Thread Stephen Provine via cygwin
On 9/5/19 2:05 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 9/5/19 1:31 PM, Stephen Provine via cygwin wrote: > > Not expected. > Why not? That obeyed cmd's odd rules: The moment you have a " in the > command line, that argument continues until end of line or the next " > (regardless of how many \ precede the ").

Re: Command line processing in dcrt0.cc does not match Microsoft parsing rules

2019-09-05 Thread Eric Blake
On 9/5/19 1:31 PM, Stephen Provine via cygwin wrote: > My mistake - I'm very aware of the quoting rules, yet in my test script for > this > scenario I forgot to quote the arguments. However, if POSIX rules are being > implemented, there is still something I didn't expect. Here's my bash script: >

RE: Command line processing in dcrt0.cc does not match Microsoft parsing rules

2019-09-05 Thread Stephen Provine via cygwin
On 2019-09-04 23:29, Brian Inglis wrote: > As standard on Unix systems, just add another level of quoting for each level > of > interpretation, as bash will process that command line, then bash will process > the script command line. My mistake - I'm very aware of the quoting rules, yet in my

Re: Command line processing in dcrt0.cc does not match Microsoft parsing rules

2019-09-04 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2019-09-04 17:46, Stephen Provine wrote: > On 2019-09-04 10:20, Brian Inglis wrote: >> and ask if you really expect anyone else to use or reproduce this insanity, >> rather than a sane POSIX parser? > > I know it's insanity, but it's insanity that almost all Windows programs > inherit and >

RE: Command line processing in dcrt0.cc does not match Microsoft parsing rules

2019-09-04 Thread Stephen Provine via cygwin
On 2019-09-04 10:20, Brian Inglis wrote: > and ask if you really expect anyone else to use or reproduce this insanity, > rather than a sane POSIX parser? I know it's insanity, but it's insanity that almost all Windows programs inherit and implement consistently enough because they use standard

Re: Command line processing in dcrt0.cc does not match Microsoft parsing rules

2019-09-04 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2019-09-03 10:38, Stephen Provine wrote: > On 2019-08-30 21:58, Brian Inglis wrote: >> Not being in the same Cygwin process group and lacking the appropriate >> interface >> info indicates that the invoker was not Cygwin. > > Should I interpret this to mean the "winshell" parameter is not an

RE: Command line processing in dcrt0.cc does not match Microsoft parsing rules

2019-09-03 Thread Stephen Provine via cygwin
On 2019-08-30 21:58, Brian Inglis wrote: > Not being in the same Cygwin process group and lacking the appropriate > interface > info indicates that the invoker was not Cygwin. Should I interpret this to mean the "winshell" parameter is not an accurate statement of what I thought it was for and

Re: Command line processing in dcrt0.cc does not match Microsoft parsing rules

2019-08-31 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Stephen Provine! > The standard rules for Microsoft command line processing are documented here: > https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/17w5ykft(v=vs.85) > The Cygwin code for command line processing is in dcrt0.cc, function > build_argv. > The behaviors do not

Re: Command line processing in dcrt0.cc does not match Microsoft parsing rules

2019-08-30 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2019-08-30 14:59, Stephen Provine wrote: >> Cygwin command line parsing has to match Unix shell command line processing, >> like argument splitting, joining within single or double quotes or after a >> backslash escaped white space characters, globbing, and other actions >> normally >>

RE: Command line processing in dcrt0.cc does not match Microsoft parsing rules

2019-08-30 Thread Stephen Provine via cygwin
> Cygwin command line parsing has to match Unix shell command line processing, > like argument splitting, joining within single or double quotes or after a > backslash escaped white space characters, globbing, and other actions normally > performed by a shell, when any Cygwin program is invoked

Re: Command line processing in dcrt0.cc does not match Microsoft parsing rules

2019-08-30 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2019-08-30 13:16, Stephen Provine via cygwin wrote: > The standard rules for Microsoft command line processing are documented here: > https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/17w5ykft(v=vs.85) > The Cygwin code for command line processing is in dcrt0.cc, function > build_argv. >