diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog b/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
index 4370ffb16..6d5258e32 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Sun Jul 16 02:30:09 2000  Christopher Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com>
+
+	* spawn.cc (spawn_guts): Use \ for quoting '"'.
+	* dcrt0.cc (quoted): Understand \ quoting for '"'.
+
 Sun Jul 16 00:32:58 2000  Christopher Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com>
 
 	* dcrt0.cc (build_argv): Strip quotes from argv[0] since it should
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/dcrt0.cc b/winsup/cygwin/dcrt0.cc
index 2d3fa8f7b..e33187acf 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/dcrt0.cc
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/dcrt0.cc
@@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ isquote (char c)
 }
 
 /* Step over a run of characters delimited by quotes */
-static __inline char *
+static /*__inline*/ char *
 quoted (char *cmd, int winshell)
 {
   char *p;
@@ -293,10 +293,10 @@ quoted (char *cmd, int winshell)
 	    cmd = strchr (cmd, '\0');	// no closing quote
 	    break;
 	  }
-	else if (p[1] == quote)
+	else if (p[1] == quote && p[-1] != '\\')
 	  {
-	    *p++ = '\\';
-	    cmd = p;			// a quoted quote
+	    *p = '\\';
+	    cmd = ++p;			// a quoted quote
 	  }
 	else
 	  {
@@ -310,20 +310,26 @@ quoted (char *cmd, int winshell)
      characters should have been placed here by spawn_guts, so
      we'll just pinch them out of the command string unless
      they're quoted with a preceding \ */
-  strcpy (cmd, cmd + 1);
-  while (*cmd)
+  p = cmd + 1;
+  while (*p)
     {
-      if (*cmd != quote)
-	cmd++;
-      else if (cmd[1] == quote)
-	strcpy (cmd++, cmd + 1);
+      if (*p != quote)
+	p++;
+      else if (p[-1] == '\\')
+	strcpy (p - 1, p);
+      else if (p[1] == quote)
+	{
+	  strcpy (p, p + 1);
+	  p++;
+	}
       else
 	{
-	  strcpy (cmd, cmd + 1);
+	  strcpy (p, p + 1);
 	  break;
 	}
     }
-  return cmd;
+  strcpy (cmd, cmd + 1);
+  return p - 1;
 }
 
 /* Perform a glob on word if it contains wildcard characters.
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/spawn.cc b/winsup/cygwin/spawn.cc
index 6ca82e413..af284f8ee 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/spawn.cc
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/spawn.cc
@@ -407,16 +407,17 @@ spawn_guts (HANDLE hToken, const char * prog_arg, const char *const *argv,
 
       newargv0 = NULL;
       int len = strlen (a);
-      if (len != 0 && !(p = strpbrk (a, " \t\n\r\"")))
+      if (len != 0 && !strpbrk (a, " \t\n\r\""))
 	one_line.add (a, len);
       else
 	{
 	  one_line.add ("\"", 1);
-	  for (; p; a = p, p = strchr (p, '"'))
+	  for (0; p = strpbrk (a, "\"\\"); a = ++p)
 	    {
-	      one_line.add (a, ++p - a);
-	      if (p[-1] == '"')
-		one_line.add ("\"", 1);
+	      one_line.add (a, p - a);
+	      if (*p == '\\' || *p == '"')
+		one_line.add ("\\", 1);
+	      one_line.add (p, 1);
 	    }
 	  if (*a)
 	    one_line.add (a);