X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 15:39:40 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: "run" changes behavior with cygwin-17.6 Message-ID: <20100818193940.GA4358@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20100818150920.GY11340@calimero.vinschen.de> <4C6C1490.3040202@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <4C6C1582.1080801@acm.org> <20100818182412.GA22698@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <20100818185421.GC22698@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <20100818191340.GB11340@calimero.vinschen.de> <20100818191906.GD22698@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <20100818192238.GA27567@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <20100818193446.GC11340@calimero.vinschen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100818193446.GC11340@calimero.vinschen.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) 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 On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 09:34:46PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Aug 18 15:22, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 03:19:06PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> >>already does for the environment. Dropping the environment had roughly >> >>the same consequences way back when, after all. >> > >> >Except that not every program uses the windows environment. This affects >> >quite a few native windows calls. > >It affects every program which calls CreateProcess or ShellExecute, for >instance. This includes GDB, tcl, run, run2, cygstart, etc. And, the current change affects every one of those programs and more. >> And, for that reason, I think we should reconsider this change. Maybe >> as a compromise maybe we could at least avoid cd'ing to the dummy >> location on entry to the first cygwin program. > >I disagree. When do you change the directory to //?/pipe then? The >first time chdir is called? Yes. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple