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> Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 17:03:47 -0700
> From: David Brown <git@davidb.org>
> Cc: 'Andreas Ericsson' <ae@op5.se>, 'Alex Riesen' <raa.lkml@gmail.com>,
> 	'git list' <git@vger.kernel.org>,
> 	'Johannes Schindelin' <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
> 	'Make Windows' <make-w32@gnu.org>
> 
> The MS exec* calls just concatenate all of the argv arguments, separating
> them with a space into a single buffer.

True.

> If you know what the library on the other end is doing to re-parse the
> arguments back into separate strings, it might be possible to quote things
> enough to handle names with spaces, but it is hard.

It's not hard, it's just a bit of work.  And it needs to be done
exactly once.