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Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:16:38 -0500
Subject: RE: Wait for cygstart finish
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Jeenu V wrote on Monday, January 12, 2009 11:45 AM:
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 9:58 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin)
> <reply-to-list-only-lh AT cygwin DOT com> wrote:
>> Just run the app without 'cygstart'?
>
> :) Well this was related to one of my earlier posts, if you recall,
> where I had problems with running cmd.exe from screen. I now work
> that around by calling cmd.exe with cygstart. Everything works fine -
> just that I wanted to know if there's a way to make cygstart wait for
> the application to finish.

Currently there isn't; see
$ man cygstart
$ cygstart --help

You could always apply the patch that you mentioned earlier yourself
and re-compile cygstart.

Work-around:  You might try the following.

$ cmd /c start /wait

You also might want to see if start's "/b" option helps.
    B    Start application without creating a new window. The
         application has ^C handling ignored. Unless the application
         enables ^C processing, ^Break is the only way to interrupt
         the application
(Please note that I've never even tried "/b" -- my suggestion comes
from start /?, not any experience.)

- Barry

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