X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4786A7FD.7000306@arcor.de> Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:19:25 +0100 From: Dirk Fassbender User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [BUG?] run.exe and pdflatex References: <4786A227.1090007@upb.de> In-Reply-To: <4786A227.1090007@upb.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Status: Clean Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Note-from-DJ: This may be spam Sven Köhler schrieb: > I just tried to run pslatex (which is a shell-script) with run.exe. > > And actually, it won't run. There is a box saying "Error: could not > start c:\cygwin\bin\pslatex". Well, it's not an exe-file. It's basically > a textfile to windows. Hence the error, i guess. > > > Now i wonder, if it's already safe or if it would be possible to use > cygwin API (for example execve) from run.exe. To fix all the issues, > run.exe really would have to use cygwin to start the command since only > that will resolv all the issues (analysing the shebang, following > symlinks, etc.). > > Just modifying the CreateProcess won't do. > Or we would have to rewrite all the shebang/symlink stuff ourselves > which is error prone. > Check the cygstart utility. I thing it works with symbolic links. Dirk -- 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/