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Subject: Re: cygstart getting The specified file was not found
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ERIC HO wrote:
> I was able to use Windows Explorer to open the file by double clicking the file. I was able to use cygstart open the file with full path. The problem is with all file type. I can do a cygstart http://www.cygwin.com/ with no problem. The result from:
>  strace cygstart hello.txt |grep hello.txt
> is as below:
>     20   11399 [main] cygstart 732 build_argv: argv[1] = 'hello.txt'
>   202   12600 [main] cygstart 732 normalize_posix_path: src hello.txt
>    46   12686 [main] cygstart 732 normalize_posix_path: /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/hello.txt = normalize_posix_path (hello.txt)
>    22   12708 [main] cygstart 732 mount_info::conv_to_win32_path: conv_to_win32_path (/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/hello.txt)
>   135   12843 [main] cygstart 732 mount_info::cygdrive_win32_path: src '/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/hello.txt', dst 'c:\WINDOWS\system32\hello.txt'
>    21   12960 [main] cygstart 732 mount_info::conv_to_win32_path: src_path /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/hello.txt, dst c:\WINDOWS\system32\hello.txt, flags 0x2A, rc 0
>    73   13033 [main] cygstart 732 symlink_info::check: GetFileAttributes (c:\WINDOWS\system32\hello.txt) failed
>    47   13103 [main] cygstart 732 symlink_info::check: GetFileAttributes (c:\WINDOWS\system32\hello.txt.lnk) failed
>   169   13294 [main] cygstart 732 symlink_info::check: 0 = symlink.check (c:\WINDOWS\system32\hello.txt, 0x22C040) (0x80002A)
>    26   13619 [main] cygstart 732 path_conv::check: this->path(c:\WINDOWS\system32\hello.txt), has_acls(1)
> Unable to start 'hello.txt': The specified file was not found.
> 
> It seems it is looking at the wrong directory.
> 

Indeed it does...
What is the current directory?
     $ pwd
     $ cmd /c pwd

Can you please attach "cygcheck -s -v -r" (see 
http://cygwin.com/problems.html)?

  - Michael

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