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Re: Build CVS (TRUNK) failed.


From: Derek Robert Price
Subject: Re: Build CVS (TRUNK) failed.
Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 18:58:35 -0500
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Dennis Jones wrote:

>I'm not at all familiar with the CVS source code, but from a cursory
look, I
>don't see anything in those functions that is *nix-specific.  They look
>generic enough that they ought to compile cleanly in Windows.  If you would
>like to send me a modified set of files (with the appropriate .MAK file), I
>would be happy to do a test build for you and send you the results.


Actually, it's not the compiling I'm worried about.  It was the command
line quoting.  The quoting is currently aimed at getting arguments whole
past a Bourne shell parser.  What is going to happen when the same
command lines are passed to command.com?  Is back-slash the escape
character AND the directory separator?  Characters within single quotes,
including the single quote, cannot be escaped for Bourne shell.  Is this
true on Windows?

If someone could rewrite the quoting functions with command.com or
whatever it is that run_exec() in windows-NT/run.c uses in mind, it
would be greatly appreciated.

Derek

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