ArgX - Better argument passing for Windows

Introduction

Windows’ handling of command line arguments historically has been poor; even in 2019, Windows still passes arguments as a single command line string, which makes processing arguments error-prone and also results in unreasonable limits on command line lengths.

ArgX aims to fix this situation in a backwards-compatible manner, such that programs that use ArgX will be able to pass arbitrary numbers of arguments cleanly among themselves without worrying about how various metacharacters might be interpreted by subprocesses.

Contents:

• Background
  • Argument passing in C
  • Typical POSIX approach
  • Typical DOS/DOS-like approach
  • What does Windows do?
• ArgX Specification
  • 1. Supporting ArgX in a client
  • 2. Supporting ArgX in a parent process
  • Change log
• Using this library
• Reference
  • ArgxCreateProcess function
  • ArgxCreateProcessAsUser function
  • ArgxGetArguments function
  • ArgxFindExecutable function
  • ArgxIsSupportedByExecutable function
  • ARGX_SECTION_DATA structure

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page