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 Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 11:40:36 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Fixing strace and cygcheck so that they work with mount -X Message-ID: <20050511154036.GD10119@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20050508230637.GD3896@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <20050509002126.GH3896@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <20050509022611.GA7850@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <427F9C41.1000605@acm.org> <427FB7B2.8040903@mscha.nl> <20050510151746.GV15665@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <42822503.2090903@mscha.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42822503.2090903@mscha.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 05:30:11PM +0200, Michael Schaap wrote: >On 10-May-2005 17:17, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >>On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 09:19:14PM +0200, Michael Schaap wrote: >> >> >>>On 9-May-2005 19:22, David Rothenberger wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>>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. >>> >>> >> >>This shows what I did to cygcheck: >> >>http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/winsup/utils/cygcheck.cc.diff?cvsroot=uberbaum&r1=1.65&r2=1.66 >> >>It's possible that the environment code may just work. Otherwise, >>you'll have to grab the environment from cygwin and build a new >>environment block, I assume. >> >> >> >Well, I gave it a try, but no success. >Since cygstart is a proper Cygwin executable, and cygcheck a normal >Windows one, the code needs to be quite different. It sounds like you need to read MSDN on CreateProcess and see what it says about "lpEnvironment": http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dllproc/base/createprocess.asp cgf -- 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/