https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42508
Bernhard Übelacker bernhardu@mailbox.org changed:
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--- Comment #1 from Bernhard Übelacker bernhardu@mailbox.org --- Came across this report because the launcher for "syngo fastView" triggers this problem too.
It looks like the quotes get removed in kernel32/process.c, function build_argv.
As explained at the end of that bug report, if you escape your quotes in Wine's cmd start.exe parses the argument as the console title, i.e.: Z:>start "hello" cmd
This does not yet work if it contains a space. But adding another pair unescaped quotation marks around would work again: c:>start ""a b"" wineconsole
It should now be evident that start.exe should either become a wrapper around cmd.exe's built-in start function, invoking cmd and let cmd itself implement start.exe's actual behaviour, or implement GetCommandLine() based argument parsing similar to cmd.exe's within start.exe, leading to duplicated command-line parsing code. Both are not ideal solutions.
Therefore, just for completeness, there is probably a third way: In cmd/builtins.c WCMD_start encode simple quotes to escaped quotes with surrounding quotes.
But I don't know which way would be the best.