strange cygstart bug with current Cygwin versions

[Michael Schaap]

On 8-Feb-2006 18:49, Michael Schaap wrote:
> On 8-Feb-2006 16:41, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>   
>> On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 01:25:12PM -0600, Brian Ford wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>
>>>     
>>>       
>>>> I believe that Brian Ford is looking into modifying the new CW_SETUP_WINENV
>>>> code to perform the proper conversion of POSIX style to Windows style.
>>>>       
>>>>         
>>> We're still debating aproaches for solving our problem, so it is possible
>>> I won't get to it.  If someone else wants to try, feel free.
>>>     
>>>       
>> Well, that's disappointing.  I'm not aware of any debates.  I thought
>> just this once we could rely on someone else fixing a problem.
>>
>> I guess I'll look into this when I get a chance.
>>
>>   
>>     
> Well, the below code works for cygstart, and does the right thing for
> the variables Cygwin converts from POSIX <-> Win32.
> Feel free to adapt this to CW_SETUP_WINENV. (Although it might be more
> elegant to use conv_envvars[] from environ.cc there.)
>
> If I hear no objections, I'm going to submit this as a path for
> cygutils, and ask Chuck to release it. If and when this gets fixed in
> CW_SETUP_WINENV, and released, I'll change it to use that instead.
>   
No idea why Thunderbird decided to strip the indentation...  Anyway,
I'll just attach cygstart.c instead.

 - Michael
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