[vbox-dev] Regarding possible solution to #13157 - Windows Command line argument handling error

Tue May 5 09:56:52 GMT 2015

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On 05/05/2015 08:39 AM, Magnus Madsen wrote:
> Hi Knut, The new option does work as advertised; it sends the
> arguments directly to the new process without stripping characters
> or enclosing it in quotes. I'm not positive that adding the new
> argument is the best solution though. For information's sake, could
> you let me know what processes I can test that act differently than
> notepad.exe with regards to the command-line arguments?

Great.

All applications using the argv that the CRT supplies via the main()
function or via global variables, and those using the CommandToArgvW
shell32.dll API.  This includes all VirtualBox programs, the Microsoft
C++ compilers, and more.

The --unquoted-args option won't be made the default behavior as it
would "break" a whole other bunch of programs, including our own.

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