Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <427FB7B2.8040903@mscha.nl> Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 21:19:14 +0200 From: Michael Schaap User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Fixing strace and cygcheck so that they work with mount -X References: <427BE5FE.7020000@fabeljet.com> <20050508003215.GA24398@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <20050508230637.GD3896@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <20050509002126.GH3896@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <20050509022611.GA7850@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <427F9C41.1000605@acm.org> In-Reply-To: <427F9C41.1000605@acm.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On 9-May-2005 19:22, David Rothenberger wrote: > On 5/8/2005 7:26 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 08:21:26PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> >>> Ultimately, I just have to make strace and cygcheck understand the >>> cygwin arguments and environment variables. Then we won't need this. >> >> >> I would appreciate it if people would check out the latest snapshot to >> verify if I actually got this working in all scenarios (directories >> mounted with -X, -x, not mounted at all, or mounted without -X and -x). > > > Does cygstart also need to be fixed? I've found that it doesn't > propagate the full Cygwin environment when /bin is mounted in cygexec > mode. > > % cygstart -- /bin/rxvt -e bash -c "'env; read x'" > > prints out a small set of environment variables when /bin is mounted > in cygexec. When /bin is mounted normally, it gets the full environment. > Well, cygstart is a proper Cygwin executable. However, it does use a Windows API call (ShellExecute, see "cygstart --reference") to execute whatever needs to be started, so I can see how it might depend on a properly synchronized Windows environment. If anyone can tell me how to do this, I'll be happy to make the change to cygstart. – Michael -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/