Hi Charles, Just to follow up on the problem that was discussed a couple of months ago (Angelo Graziosi's initial report copied below), I have similar problems with run-1.3.0-1 that were not present in run-1.2.0-1.
I made a simple example that perhaps shows the problem more clearly: with an X-server running (and xmessage installed), from the Windows Command Prompt: C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe xmessage "a b" With run-1.2.0-1, this shows the message with several spaces between the "a" and "b" as given on the command line, but in run-1.3.0-1, all but one of the spaces are dropped. I guess the new version of run is not interpreting the " quotes correctly and xmessage is receiving two arguments "a" "b" (debug printout shows this), which it separates with a single space. The same happens if I use /usr/bin/run from the bash shell. One can get the correct spacing by adding an extra level of quoting, eg. C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe xmessage "'a b'" (single quotes inside double quotes, or vice versa). Of course it's not so serious with this example, but bash -c (as Angelo and I use) requires the full command to be passed as a single option argument. Using the extra quoting is a work-around, but it's inconsistent and confusing. Sorry for the noise if this was already obvious, but I thought this might be an extra hint. I'm using 32-bit Cygwin 1.7.25-1, freshly installed on 64-bit Windows 8. Regards, Tim. =========================== cut here ============================ Tim Adye t.j.a...@rl.ac.uk http://hepunx.rl.ac.uk/~adye ATLAS Group, Particle Physics Dept, Rutherford Appleton Lab =========================== cut here ============================ Angelo Graziosi wrote on 25 Jul 2013: > > After this update, my Cygwin installation is basically broken. I have > several links on desktop to start Cygwin applications and they don't > work any more. The links target sound like these: > > C:\cygwin-2\bin\run.exe bash -l -c 'rm -rf /tmp/{.X*,dbus*,orbit*,*}; > XWin -nowgl -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error 2>/dev/null &' > > C:\cygwin-2\bin\run.exe bash -l -c 'GSETTINGS_BACKEND=memory emacs > -display 127.0.0.1:0.0 2>/dev/null &' > > C:\cygwin-2\bin\run.exe bash -l -c 'urxvt-X -display 127.0.0.1:0.0 -ls > -e /bin/bash -l 2>/dev/null &' > > etc... > > They worked fine for years without any problem. Reverting the update to > previous version 1.2 of "run" allow the applications to work fine again. -----Original Message----- From: cygwin-announce-ow...@cygwin.com On Behalf Of Charles Wilson Sent: 24 July 2013 23:40 To: cygwin-annou...@cygwin.com Subject: Updated: run-1.3.0-1 The run package provides a simple application to launch console programs with their console hidden. This is a bugfix update. It should operate as normal on cygwin-1.7.21 as well as other versions of cygwin. All previous versions of run, including 1.2.0-1, are broken on cygwin-1.7.21 and newer unless recompiled on cygwin-1.7.22 to take advantage of a compile-time fix that version of cygwin introduce. Note that this package was NOT compiled on cygwin-1.7.22, and does NOT employ cygwin's new compile-time fix; instead, run's own code was corrected to work properly, with the cygwin-1.7.21+ runtime behavior. CHANGES since run-1.2.0-1 ============================ * Avoid failure on cygwin-1.7.21 vs. GetCommandLine not being populated. This was fixed in cygwin-1.7.22 but it's good to clean up this code anyway. * Massive refactoring to share implementations (at the source code level) with run2. * -wait need not be the first argument * New options --run-nogui, --run-notty, --run-verbose, and --run-debug[=N] controlling how run.exe itself reports error conditions and other messages. + By default, it is silent. If any messages are enabled via --run-verbose or --run-debug=N, then they will either be reported on stderr, or in windows popup boxes. + stderr is used if run.exe is launched from the cmdline, or if --run-nogui. + Windows popup boxes are used if run.exe is launched by doubleclicking it or by a Windows shortcut, or if --run-notty. -- Charles Wilson volunteer run maintainer for cygwin ==================================================================== To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Then, run setup and answer all of the questions. *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: cygwin-announce-unsubscribe-you=yourdomain....@cygwin.com If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sourceware.org/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL. -- Scanned by iCritical. -- 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
