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Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 21:03:08 +0200
From: Michael Schaap <cygwin AT mscha DOT org>
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Subject: Re: Error using cygstart command with option arguments: "cygstart:   bad   argument"
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On 24-Jul-2005 2:01, Eric Blake wrote:
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> According to Brian Dessent on 7/23/2005 2:24 PM:
>   
>>> $ cygstart bash -c echo Hi There
>>> cygstart: bad argument -c: unknown option
>>>       
>> The problem that you are running into is that you need to tell cygstart
>> that the -c and following arguments are meant for the child process, and
>> are not arguments to cygstart itself.  '--' is a standard way of doing
>> this, which indicates to the program that all of the following arguments
>> should not be interpreted as switches but just regular data.  So
>> "cygstart -- bash -c ..." ought to work.
>>     
>
> Or you could patch cygstart to not permute arguments (by the way, cygutils
> was hard to bootstrap from CVS.  I had to run `gettextize -f', and now
> have several CVS conflicts where generated files conflict with the results
> of the gettextize and ./bootstrap):
>
> 2005-07-23  Eric Blake  <ebb9 AT byu DOT net>
>
> 	* src/cygstart/cygstart.c (main): Don't permute options.
>
> Index: src/cygstart/cygstart.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/cygwin-apps/cygutils/src/cygstart/cygstart.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.4
> diff -u -p -r1.4 cygstart.c
> - --- src/cygstart/cygstart.c     16 May 2005 20:18:52 -0000      1.4
> +++ src/cygstart/cygstart.c     23 Jul 2005 23:56:48 -0000
> @@ -176,7 +176,8 @@ int main(int argc, const char **argv)
>      }
>
>      /* Parse options */
> - -    optCon = poptGetContext(NULL, argc, argv, opt, 0);
> +    optCon = poptGetContext(NULL, argc, argv, opt,
> +                           POPT_CONTEXT_POSIXMEHARDER);
>      poptSetOtherOptionHelp(optCon, "[OPTION]... FILE [ARGUMENTS]");
>      while ((rc = poptGetNextOpt(optCon)) > 0) {
>          switch (rc) {
>   
This patch makes sense to me, so gets my blessing (FWIW :-)

Chuck, can you apply this patch?

Thanks,

– Michael

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