X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:49:11 -0500 From: Brian Ford Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: "run" changes behavior with cygwin-17.6 In-Reply-To: <20100818193446.GC11340@calimero.vinschen.de> Message-ID: References: <380-220108318145158645@cantv.net> <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" 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 On Wed, 18 Aug 2010, 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, 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? Can someone please remind me why you shouldn't change to that directory only when SetCurrentDirectory would fail due to a long path, virtual path, etc? I think it was covered in the developer list, but I can't find it right now. -- Brian Ford Staff Realtime Software Engineer VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems FlightSafety International the best safety device in any aircraft is a well-trained crew... -- 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