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| author | DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com> | 2004-05-31 13:27:45 +0000 |
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| committer | DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com> | 2004-05-31 13:27:45 +0000 |
| commit | 9f7d3e7dfa3082c694b49213310649c5d61a3ac4 (patch) | |
| tree | e4e5fb6056d468d5220e399dc6fcd191c111b12e /libiberty/pex-win32.c | |
| parent | 6cfb204197ab46ab8aec26a1ed22d4c23aab8bc1 (diff) | |
| download | binutils-gdb-9f7d3e7dfa3082c694b49213310649c5d61a3ac4.tar.gz | |
merge from gcc
Diffstat (limited to 'libiberty/pex-win32.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | libiberty/pex-win32.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/libiberty/pex-win32.c b/libiberty/pex-win32.c index 27a5bb4e309..2b4abdffbf9 100644 --- a/libiberty/pex-win32.c +++ b/libiberty/pex-win32.c @@ -59,7 +59,12 @@ fix_argv (argvec) int i; char * command0 = argvec[0]; - /* Ensure that the executable pathname uses Win32 backslashes. */ + /* Ensure that the executable pathname uses Win32 backslashes. This + is not necessary on NT, but on W9x, forward slashes causes failure + of spawn* and exec* functions (and probably any function that + calls CreateProcess) *iff* the executable pathname (argvec[0]) is + a quoted string. And quoting is necessary in case a pathname + contains embedded white space. You can't win. */ for (; *command0 != '\0'; command0++) if (*command0 == '/') *command0 = '\\'; |