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: <42E2DA57.4000605@byu.net> Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 18:01:27 -0600 From: Eric Blake User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Error using cygstart command with option arguments: "cygstart: bad argument" References: <20050723194252.38651.qmail@web30211.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <42E2A76E.5F686BC0@dessent.net> In-Reply-To: <42E2A76E.5F686BC0@dessent.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Brian Dessent on 7/23/2005 2:24 PM: >> >>$ cygstart bash -c echo Hi There >>cygstart: bad argument -c: unknown option > > The problem that you are running into is that you need to tell cygstart > that the -c and following arguments are meant for the child process, and > are not arguments to cygstart itself. '--' is a standard way of doing > this, which indicates to the program that all of the following arguments > should not be interpreted as switches but just regular data. So > "cygstart -- bash -c ..." ought to work. Or you could patch cygstart to not permute arguments (by the way, cygutils was hard to bootstrap from CVS. I had to run `gettextize -f', and now have several CVS conflicts where generated files conflict with the results of the gettextize and ./bootstrap): 2005-07-23 Eric Blake * src/cygstart/cygstart.c (main): Don't permute options. Index: src/cygstart/cygstart.c =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/cygwin-apps/cygutils/src/cygstart/cygstart.c,v retrieving revision 1.4 diff -u -p -r1.4 cygstart.c - --- src/cygstart/cygstart.c 16 May 2005 20:18:52 -0000 1.4 +++ src/cygstart/cygstart.c 23 Jul 2005 23:56:48 -0000 @@ -176,7 +176,8 @@ int main(int argc, const char **argv) } /* Parse options */ - - optCon = poptGetContext(NULL, argc, argv, opt, 0); + optCon = poptGetContext(NULL, argc, argv, opt, + POPT_CONTEXT_POSIXMEHARDER); poptSetOtherOptionHelp(optCon, "[OPTION]... FILE [ARGUMENTS]"); while ((rc = poptGetNextOpt(optCon)) > 0) { switch (rc) { - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFC4tpW84KuGfSFAYARAj5kAKC8YqqHvlj4ydO4CRF8Pc4JHCFGtgCdEk3L rujiGC5NDKB4OrQXNZ2f1G0= =cM/r -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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/