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Re: "run" changes behavior with cygwin-17.6


On Aug 18 15:22, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 03:19:06PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >>already does for the environment.  Dropping the environment had roughly
> >>the same consequences way back when, after all.
> >
> >Except that not every program uses the windows environment.  This affects
> >quite a few native windows calls.

It affects every program which calls CreateProcess or ShellExecute, for
instance.  This includes GDB, tcl, run, run2, cygstart, etc.

> And, for that reason, I think we should reconsider this change.  Maybe
> as a compromise maybe we could at least avoid cd'ing to the dummy
> location on entry to the first cygwin program.

I disagree.  When do you change the directory to //?/pipe then?  The
first time chdir is called?


Corinna

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