Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/10/03/12:56:34
On 10/2/05, Michael Schaap wrote:
> To be able to check whether something has changed in the path handling,
> I've uploaded a version of cygstart that prints out the exact
> ShellExecute call it is making, at
> <http://www.mscha.org/cygstart_dbg.zip>. Could you perhaps download
> that, try it out both with a snapshot and 1.5.18, and let us know
> whether it prints out something different?
With 20050930 snapshot, running 'cygstart_dbg empty.mdb':
ShellExecute(
"(null)",
"(null)",
"empty.mdb",
"(null)",
"(null)",
1
);
With 1.5.18, the same command:
ShellExecute(
"(null)",
"(null)",
"empty.mdb",
"(null)",
"(null)",
1
);
They look pretty similar to me.
> If that's not it, then I don't know what it could be. Must have
> something to do with timing, or the exact memory location, or something
> like that, especially since the problem disappears under strace...
> To track it down, perhaps you could try:
> - "cmd /c start whatever.mdb" from a Cygwin prompt
Works. So at least this gives me a better workaround than running strace,
if I can remember it.
> - "cygstart whatever.mdb" from a cmd.exe command prompt
Works.
> - save the simplest possible Access database, and see if cygstart can
> open that
Doesn't work.
> - make sure whatever.mdb is on a local disk, in the current directory,
> and has a simple file name
'empty.mdb' is in 'C:\'. Running 'cygstart empty.mdb' from /cygdrive/c doesn't
work.
For all cases, "works" means that the mdb file comes up properly in Access 97,
whereas "doesn't work" means the error message mentioned in my original
email on the subject(http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-09/msg00923.html).
For another data point, cygstart works fine on my Windows 98 SE computer,
running a recent snapshot(forget which one, sorry), but it has Access 2000.
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