On 3/2/06, Christopher Faylor <me@xxxxxx> wrote: > >> The cygwin/windows version of spawn is basically like an extended version > >> of exec*(): > >> > >> pid = spawnlp (P_NOWAIT, "/bin/ls", "ls", "-l", NULL); > >> > > > >By the way, is argv worked around? > >AFAIK, windows has only one argument, returned by GetCommandLine? > > Cygwin passes an argv list between cygwin processes and a quoted command > line to pure windows processes. What for? They can't use it anyway. $ notepad '"abc"' - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html