X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: RE: 1.7.0: Getting a Windows app to run synchronously to a script from which it is invoked Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 08:37:02 -0500 Message-ID: <297343D29C14AA4D822142893ABEAEF3062B6166@srv1163ex1.flightsafety.com> In-Reply-To: <20090324101715.GC9322@calimero.vinschen.de> References: <49C6D72D.4090804@veritech.com> <20090323092845.GJ9322@calimero.vinschen.de> <49C822E9.2050603@veritech.com> <20090324101715.GC9322@calimero.vinschen.de> From: "Thrall, Bryan" To: X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 Corinna Vinschen wrote on Tuesday, March 24, 2009 5:17 AM: > Hmm. What kind of "softlink" are you talking about? Is that a > Windows shortcut created by Windows? Or is that a Cygwin symlink? > If the latter, did you create the symlink way back when, or did you > create the symlink under Cygwin 1.7? If the latter, the symlink > is probably not a Windows shortcut anymore, rather the other Cygwin > style of symlink which is a file with the SYSTEM DOS attribute set. > In this case it's no wonder Windows opens the file, rather than to > follow the shortcut to its target. I made the change because the > SYSTEM type shortcuts are faster. If you want to have the Windows > shortcut style symlinks back because you use them to interoperate > with native Windows tools, you have to set the CYGWIN=3Dwinsymlinks > option now. This is a change from 1.5, right? The 1.5 user guide says "winsimlinks" is the default, and the 1.7 user guide says "nowinsimlinks" is. It seems like this change was missed in http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/ov-new1.7.html --=20 Bryan Thrall FlightSafety International bryan.thrall@flightsafety.com -- 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/