Greetings, Nem W Schlecht! > Thanks for the excellent breakdown, Ken. Makes sense with the colon > ":". Still not sure why it did work a couple months ago and now > doesn't. I was under the assumption that 'cygstart' was a very basic > program that just passed whatever it was passed on to Windows to > handle - similar to "Start-Process" in Powershell, or well, just like > double-clicking on something on the Desktop.
> My 'cygstart's last mod time is Nov 24, 2015 and this was definitely > working *after* that time, so something else changed. It's like > 'cygstart' is assuming this is a file and trying to do something smart > that way rather than just letting Windows handle it (as it would > *need* to do if this were indeed a Cygwin path). Again, when I add in > the extra slashes, S4B *does* get the SIP request. Without the > slashes, something in Cygwin is assuming this is a filesystem call. > I'll take a look at the 'cygstart' code and see if (with my lowly > programming skills) I can suggest a patch. :) In the meantime, you could use a workaround. "$SYSTEMROOT/System32/cmd.exe" /C START "" /NOWAIT "sip:..." -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Tuesday, September 13, 2016 22:01:17 Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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
