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Re: "run" changes behavior with cygwin-17.6
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 09:34:46PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>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, the current change affects every one of those programs and more.
>> 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?
Yes.
cgf
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