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Unix-like OSs pass an array of strings to processes as the command line
arguments. Empty arguments do not require special treatment.

By contrast, Windows uses a single string to pass all arguments to the
process. The process parses the string to construct argv[]. To pass an
empty argument, quotes are required.

Note that this is unrelated to any additional parsing a shell might perform.

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@kroening kroening changed the title on Windows, empty shell arguments require quotes on Windows, empty command-line arguments require quotes Mar 14, 2020
Unix-like OSs pass an array of strings to processes as the command line
arguments. Empty arguments do not require special treatment.

By contrast, Windows uses a single string to pass all arguments to the
process.  The process parses the string to construct argv[].  To pass an
empty argument, quotes are required.

Note that this is unrelated to any additional parsing a shell might perform.
@kroening kroening force-pushed the empty-arg-on-windows branch from 4dfedca to 9e86cd0 Compare March 14, 2020 11:26
@kroening kroening marked this pull request as ready for review March 14, 2020 12:00
@kroening kroening merged commit 9799317 into develop Mar 15, 2020
@kroening kroening deleted the empty-arg-on-windows branch March 15, 2020 14:18
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