Mark J. Reed wrote on Wednesday, July 23, 2008 4:20 PM: > On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Wilfried wrote: >> But there is no need to put the sleep command in. >> I had the impression that the script waited until the cygstart >> command was finished. > > Yes, but the cygstart command doesn't wait for the command it starts; > it returns to the shell prompt immediately. So the script might > start Notepad and then delete the file before Notepad even has a > chance to try to load it.
Giving cygstart a ` --wait ' option might be useful for some situations. (Just a thought -- NOT a request!) But a simple $ notepad /p "$(cygpath -w "$tmp_file")" waits for notepad to exit before issuing a new prompt, so one does not need to do $ "$(cygpath -u "$COMSPEC")" /c start /wait notepad.exe /p "$(cygpath -w "$tmp_file")" or even $ cygstart --wait notepad /p "$(cygpath -w "$tmp_file")" (theoretically possible in the future) - Barry - Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.
