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Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2014 11:17:03 +0200
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On 06/10/2014 11:03, Marcin Kurczewski wrote:
> I just ran into an issue that was already explained by someone else here:
> http://superuser.com/questions/720846/cygstart-directory-switch-is-ignored-when-using-action-runas
>
> Below I paste contents of above report, from ZeroKnight:
>
>> It seems the --directory switch is ineffective when used with --action=runas
>> when using cygstart. For example:
>>
>> cygstart --action=runas --directory=`cygpath -wa $PWD` cmd.exe /k dir
>>
>> The expected output is the contents of the working directory of the
>> cygwin shell the command was run from. Instead, it outputs the contents of
>> C:\Windows\system32, the default starting path for an administrative command
>> prompt, completely ignoring the --directory switch. In contrast, omitting the
>> --action=runas switch gives the expected output, but obviously not with
>> elevated permissions.
>
> Confirmed the bug to still exist on my version of Cygwin, which is:
>
> CYGWIN_NT-6.2-WOW64 work 1.7.28(0.271/5/3) 2014-02-09 21:06 i686 Cygwin
>

works fine on my system

$ uname -vrs
CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 1.7.32(0.274/5/3) 2014-08-13 23:03

What about
1) updating your system
2) following https://cygwin.com/problems.html guidelines ?

Regards
Marco

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