"run" changes behavior with cygwin-17.6

[Andy Koppe]

On 18 August 2010 20:39, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 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.

Right, that's a pretty big argument for favouring Windows integration
rather than Linux compatibility here. So what would be the
consequences of not allowing the current working directory of a
running process to be deleted?

>>> 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.

I'm not convinced such a compromise would be worthwhile, because it
would forfeit Linux compatibility while still breaking some
Win32-using programs. I think it should be one way or the other:
either stick with the current approach, or always sync the Win32
working directory up-to-date (except when that's not possible).

Andy

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