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, 26 Oct 2005 09:08:07 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Alexander Gottwald cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [ITP] run.exe was Re: Running ssh in background [solution/patch] In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <435F56CB.4EBEB22C@dessent.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Alexander Gottwald wrote: > On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Brian Dessent wrote: > > > You might make more traction by suitably patching the 'run' utility so > > that it also supports pipes. Then you could use 'run' to launch the > > standard /bin/ssh without the console window. > > done. > check http://www.freedesktop.org/~ago/run.exe > It is based on the version from X-startup-scripts-1.0.10-4 with the following > change to run/run.c > > < start.dwFlags = STARTF_USESHOWWINDOW; > > start.dwFlags = STARTF_USESHOWWINDOW | STARTF_USESTDHANDLES; > start.wShowWindow = SW_HIDE; > > start.hStdInput = GetStdHandle(STD_INPUT_HANDLE); > > start.hStdOutput = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE); > > start.hStdError = GetStdHandle(STD_ERROR_HANDLE); > > [ITP] I think I'll split run.exe from the X-startup-scripts package and > create a new one which i'll continue to maintain. FINALLY! It's been on my TODO list for *ages*. Thank you! Incidentally, I have a few patches to run.exe. Where should I send them? Igor P.S. Why is this ITP going to the main list? Shouldn't it be on cygwin-apps? -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/