X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Subject: Re: 'run' command quirks From: Alexander Gottwald To: cygwin@cygwin.com In-Reply-To: References: <20060329080243.fb30e530d17747c2b054d625b8945d88.2650412c0c.wbe@email.email.secureserver.net> <442CAC78.60006@byu.net> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 16:40:14 +0200 Message-Id: <1143816014.9386.12.camel@zipoli.prudsys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -1.4 (-) X-Spam-Report: --- Start der SpamAssassin 3.1.1 Textanalyse (-1.4 Punkte) Fragen an/questions to: Postmaster TU Chemnitz -1.4 ALL_TRUSTED Nachricht wurde nur ueber vertrauenswuerdige Rechner weitergeleitet --- Ende der SpamAssassin Textanalyse X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 09:17 -0500, Igor Peshansky wrote: > > run has no problem with /cygdrive (it's linked with cygwin1.dll, after > all). What confuses it are the spaces in the path. From a quick look at > the run source, it parses the command line twice -- once to skip the > executable name, and the other to determine the name of the program to run Problems are the quotes. It tries to find "/cygdrive/c/Program Files/vim/gvim".exe -- 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/