X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_05,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4C6C1582.1080801@acm.org> Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:16:50 -0700 From: David Rothenberger User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Thunderbird/3.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: "run" changes behavior with cygwin-17.6 References: <380-220108318145158645 AT cantv DOT net> <20100818150920 DOT GY11340 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <4C6C1490 DOT 3040202 AT cwilson DOT fastmail DOT fm> In-Reply-To: <4C6C1490.3040202@cwilson.fastmail.fm> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On 8/18/2010 10:12 AM, Charles Wilson wrote: > On 8/18/2010 11:09 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> Looks like the "run" tool now needs a call to >> >> CYGWIN_CONV_TO_POSIX_PATH ((get_cwd (), win32_cwd)); >> >> and then use win32_cwd in the call to CreateProcess. >> >> See http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#pathnames-win32-api > > Yep. run2 also needs a similar update. > > Thanks for the heads up; I didn't really think about how the recent > changes to cygwin's cwd handling would affect those two packages. I noticed a similar change in cygstart, too. I used to have a script that would cd to a directory and then run cygstart. After the upgrade to 1.7.6, this stopped working. I had to use the --directory switch to cygstart to get the right behavior. -- David Rothenberger ---- daveroth AT acm DOT org micro: Thinker toys. -- 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