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Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 12:42:05 +0400
From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon AT freemail DOT ru>
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Greetings, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]!

> Question #1:

> Why not use cygstart?

> The only reason I ever use cmd /c start is to use the /wait option of start,
> which is exactly not what you want.  (Indeed, I wouldn't mind it if a --wait
> option was added to cygstart.  Hint.  Hint.)

> Question #1.1:

> Are you using the /wait option of cmd /c start?

> Question #2:

> Is there a reason that cygstart wasn't suggested earlier?

> (That's not intended as a criticism.  I just want to know why in case there
> was one.)

For non-interactive process it's an overkill, IMO.
run.exe has sufficient amount of features.
But, I think, it's more a problem of expected behavior vs. choice of tools.

The behavior expected was achievable, but not using the chosen tools.


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Andrey Repin (anrdaemon AT freemail DOT ru) 10.05.2012, <12:39>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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