X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:37:27 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sven_K=F6hler?= cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [BUG?] run.exe and pdflatex In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <4786A227.1090007@upb.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="-559023410-1804928587-1200008247=:13638" Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: 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 Note-from-DJ: This may be spam ---559023410-1804928587-1200008247=:13638 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Sven Köhler wrote: > > 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.). > > OK, we cannot use execve, right? If we would, it would open yet another > console window will be opened for the program we'd like to exec, right? Exactly. > So is there any cygwin call to analyse a path? A call, that simply > returns the program to execute, the parameters to pass, etc.? > > It really would really be better pass all the work (finding shebang, > etc.) to cygwin so that it's consistent. Yes, there is a well-known extensively tested way of handling shell scripts, symlinks, etc. It's called "using a shell". Just execve your favorite shell (/bin/bash is most likely to be present in all installs, and /bin/sh in Cygwin is the same as bash), and pass it the executable path as an argument. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "That which is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. That is the whole Torah; the rest is commentary. Go and study it." -- Rabbi Hillel ---559023410-1804928587-1200008247=:13638 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii -- 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/ ---559023410-1804928587-1200008247=:13638--