On 18 August 2010 19:24, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>I noticed a similar change in cygstart, too. I used to have a script >>that would cd to a directory and then run cygstart. After the upgrade to >>1.7.6, this stopped working. I had to use the --directory switch to >>cygstart to get the right behavior. > > Call me dense but I don't understand why any changes are needed. If > you're cd'ed to a non-Cygwin-special location why doesn't stuff "just > work"?
The Win32 working directory is changed to '\\?\PIPE\' at process startup, otherwise the working directory can't be deleted from under the process, which you can do on Linux. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
