Re: EMX runtime and command line arguments

On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 09:36:40PM +0100, Andreas Buening wrote:
> Just to make sure I've understood correctly: If I want to run
> a cmd command line with spawn*() then I can use
> argv[0] = "cmd";
> argv[1] = "/c";
> argv[2] = "very long command line";
> argv[3] = NULL;
> 
> which is 100% identical to the case if I split the command
> line into pieces like the following:
> 
> argv[0] = "cmd";
> argv[1] = "/c";
> argv[2] = "very";
> argv[3] = "long";
> argv[4] = "command";
> argv[5] = "line";
> argv[6] = NULL;

> Is this correct?

executables spawn()ed with different argc/argv will get *different*
command lines.  However, it may happen that in the case of cmd.exe the
*interpretation* which cmd.exe gives to these two different command
lines is going to be the same.  Hard to tell, since the syntax used by
cmd.exe is not documented!

> Are there any known limits for the cmd command line arguments?

32K for the command line, and 32K for environment.

Hope this helps,
Ilya