This is necessary due to the broken implementation of exec* routines in
the Microsoft libraries: they concatenate the arguments together without
quoting special characters, and pass the result to CreateProcess, with
predictably bad results. By contrast, POSIX execvp passes the arguments
This is necessary due to the broken implementation of exec* routines in
the Microsoft libraries: they concatenate the arguments together without
quoting special characters, and pass the result to CreateProcess, with
predictably bad results. By contrast, POSIX execvp passes the arguments