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| -rw-r--r-- | libbutl/process.cxx | 13 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/libbutl/process.cxx b/libbutl/process.cxx index 73cc8a6..f6433fb 100644 --- a/libbutl/process.cxx +++ b/libbutl/process.cxx @@ -1326,8 +1326,13 @@ namespace butl // may add a flag to disable all quoting since the user may need to quote // some arguments but not others). // - bool q (*a == '\0' || - (bat ? strpbrk (a, " =,;") : strchr (a, ' ')) != nullptr); + // While `()` and `[]` are not special characters, some "subsystems" + // (e.g., Cygwin/MSYS2) try to interpret them in certain contexts (e.g., + // relative paths). So we quote them as well (over-quoting seems to be + // harmless according to the "Parsing C Command-Line Arguments" MSDN + // article). + // + bool q (*a == '\0' || strpbrk (a, bat ? " =,;" : " ()[]") != nullptr); if (!q && strchr (a, '"') == nullptr) return a; @@ -1338,8 +1343,8 @@ namespace butl s += '"'; // Note that backslashes don't need escaping, unless they immediately - // precede the double quote (see `Parsing C Command-Line Arguments` MSDN - // article for more details). For example: + // precede the double quote (see "Parsing C Command-Line Arguments" MSDN + // article for details). For example: // // -DPATH="C:\\foo\\" -> -DPATH=\"C:\\foo\\\\\" // -DPATH=C:\foo bar\ -> "-DPATH=C:\foo bar\\" |