Just updated cygutils and cygstart no longer works

Mark Geisert mark@maxrnd.com
Fri Aug 13 22:20:40 GMT 2021


Hello Jay,

Jay Abel via Cygwin wrote:
> Sorry, more information.  I'm running Windows 10, 64-bit, AMD.
> 
> I've reverted cygutils back to 1.4.16-2 and the problem is resolved.
> 
> Jay
> 
> On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 10:27 AM Jay Abel <jay.abel@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Run cygstart with anything and no window opens.  I've tried URLS cygstart
>> http://www.cygwin.com, directories cygstart . and cygstart ./  as well as
>> pdf files cygstart example.pdf.
>>
>> None of these seems to do anything anymore.

I have the same setup as you but all seems well here.  With 1.4.16-3 installed all 
four of your testcases work for me.  I don't know what to suggest.

When you have a chance, what does 'echo $?' say at the prompt after cygstart 
finishes one of your testcases?  0 means successful, 1 (or something else) means 
failure.

..mark


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