Fixing strace and cygcheck so that they work with mount -X

Michael Schaap cygwin@mscha.org
Thu May 12 03:37:00 GMT 2005


On 11-May-2005 20:11, Dave Korn wrote:

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>>From: Christopher Faylor
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>>cygstart uses CreateProcess to start
>>programs so, even though cygstart is a cygwin process, it needs to know
>>about the cygwin environment.  It doesn't even need any of the new logic
>>that I just added to the DLL.  It just needs to construct a windows
>>environment block from cygwin's UNIX-like environment and pass that to
>>CreateProcess.
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>  Elementary, my dear watson!  I'll get onto it after I get home from work
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Actually, cygstart does *not* use CreateProcess, and we - well, mostly
Dave R. - already fixed the problem, so never mind.  ;-)

Thanks for your offer, though.

 - Michael

PS: This is all *way* off-topic for this list.  To make up for it, I
propose to add a --hippo flag to cygstart.  Anyone have a suggestion for
what it should do?



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