Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/12/11/17:29:53
On 12/11/06, ERIC HO wrote:
> I was able to use Windows Explorer to open the file by double clicking the file. I was able to use cygstart open the file with full path. The problem is with all file type. I can do a cygstart http://www.cygwin.com/ with no problem. The result from:
> strace cygstart hello.txt |grep hello.txt
> is as below:
> 20 11399 [main] cygstart 732 build_argv: argv[1] = 'hello.txt'
> 202 12600 [main] cygstart 732 normalize_posix_path: src hello.txt
> 46 12686 [main] cygstart 732 normalize_posix_path: /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/hello.txt = normalize_posix_path (hello.txt)
> 22 12708 [main] cygstart 732 mount_info::conv_to_win32_path: conv_to_win32_path (/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/hello.txt)
Are you running the command from inside your C:\WINDOWS\system32 directory?
When I run the command, it checks my current directory before looking
anywhere else.
File does not exist:
$ strace cygstart hello.txt | grep hello.txt
48 30028 [main] cygstart 444 build_argv: argv[1] = 'hello.txt'
445 32605 [main] cygstart 444 normalize_posix_path: src hello.txt
52 32750 [main] cygstart 444 normalize_posix_path: /hello.txt =
normalize_posix_path (hello.txt)
49 32799 [main] cygstart 444 mount_info::conv_to_win32_path:
conv_to_win32_path (/hello.txt)
47 32903 [main] cygstart 444 mount_info::conv_to_win32_path:
src_path /hello.txt, dst C:\cygwin\hello.txt, flags 0xA, rc 0
223 33126 [main] cygstart 444 symlink_info::check:
GetFileAttributes (C:\cygwin\hello.txt) failed
106 33289 [main] cygstart 444 symlink_info::check:
GetFileAttributes (C:\cygwin\hello.txt.lnk) failed
46 33387 [main] cygstart 444 symlink_info::check: 0 =
symlink.check (C:\cygwin\hello.txt, 0x22C040) (0x80000A)
54 33441 [main] cygstart 444 path_conv::check:
this->path(C:\cygwin\hello.txt), has_acls(1)
Unable to start 'hello.txt': The specified file was not found.
File does exist:
$ strace cygstart hello.txt | grep hello.txt
47 30081 [main] cygstart 3992 build_argv: argv[1] = 'hello.txt'
443 32711 [main] cygstart 3992 normalize_posix_path: src hello.txt
47 32853 [main] cygstart 3992 normalize_posix_path: /hello.txt =
normalize_posix_path (hello.txt)
48 32901 [main] cygstart 3992 mount_info::conv_to_win32_path:
conv_to_win32_path (/hello.txt)
48 33006 [main] cygstart 3992 mount_info::conv_to_win32_path:
src_path /hello.txt, dst C:\cygwin\hello.txt, flags 0xA, rc 0
51 33251 [main] cygstart 3992 symlink_info::check: 0 =
symlink.check (C:\cygwin\hello.txt, 0x22C040) (0x80000A)
58 33309 [main] cygstart 3992 path_conv::check:
this->path(C:\cygwin\hello.txt), has_acls(1)
Neither one looks at my Windows system32 directory.
-Jason
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