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From: j8raa6t5a9 AT snkmail DOT com
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:40:55 +0000
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: modified cygwin.bat for rxvt - window does not stay up in 1.7.2
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Corinna Vinschen wrote at 21:20 +0100 on Mar 24, 2010:
 > On Mar 24 20:16, Andy Koppe wrote:
 > > Andy Koppe:
 > > > j8raa6t5a9:
 > > >> I updated to 1.7.2 and the cygwin.bat I modified ages ago to run rxvt does not work anymore.  The window pops up and quickly disappears (I'm using\
 Windows XP).
 > > >>
 > > >> cygwin.bat looks like:
 > > >> @echo off
 > > >> C:
 > > >> chdir C:\cygwin\bin
 > > >> rxvt -e bash --login -i
 > > >
 > > > Does changing 'bash' to '/bin/bash' make a difference?
 > > 
 > > Answering my own question: yes.
 > > 
 > > There was a change in execvp()'s behaviour to no longer look up an
 > > executable in the current working directory, wasn't there? I can't
 > > find it in the ChangeLog though.
 
Yes, adding full paths to anything I exec fixes it for me.
In reality, I use ssh-agent, too, so it becomes:

ssh-agent /bin/rxvt -e /bin/bash --login -i

 > Missed it by *that* much.  I will add it to the release announcement for
 > 1.7.2-2.

Thanks.

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