On Aug 18 14:54, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 07:32:40PM +0100, Andy Koppe wrote: > >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. > > Yes, I guess I did not properly appreciate the fact that we presumably > broke every CreateProcess call in a cygwin program when we did this. > While I'm on record about not caring too much about that scenario, it > seems meaner than usual for us to break this since the report which > caused the recent change was from someone calling CreateProcess in a > cygwin program. > > But, anyway, since we have broken this, I don't think we should force > every user of CreateProcess to call CYGWIN_CONV_TO_POSIX_PATH. We > probably should add an internal interface which sets the current working > directory for windows if it can.
I'm going to add a new call cygwin_internal (CW_SYNC_WINCWD); which will do the same for the CWD as cygwin_internal (CW_SYNC_WINENV); already does for the environment. Dropping the environment had roughly the same consequences way back when, after all. However, in contrast to CW_SYNC_WINENV, CW_SYNC_WINCWD will return -1 and set errno if setting a Windows CWD fails. The error codes will be typically ENOTDIR if the CWD is a virtual directory EACCES if the directory is actually inaccessible or ENAMETOOLONG if the directory has a pathname > 258 chars. I'll also add documentation for this. HTH, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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
