Re: Switching from CVS to GIT

[David Brown]

On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 11:59:35PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
> On 14 October 2007 23:15, Alex Riesen wrote:
>
> > Interprocess communication:
> >
> > - it has only one argument (limited in size) passed to started
> >   programs, which means that there is no possible way to safely pass
> >   file and text arguments on command line (more than one, that is)
>
>  Whuh?
>
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/y5zz48s1(VS.80).aspx

The MS exec* calls just concatenate all of the argv arguments, separating
them with a space into a single buffer.

Look at the general _exec* page:

  http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/431x4c1w(VS.80).aspx

and read the first "Note" section.

If you know what the library on the other end is doing to re-parse the
arguments back into separate strings, it might be possible to quote things
enough to handle names with spaces, but it is hard.

David