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Re: Set argv[0] in the win32 style for non-Cygwin applications.


>>> On Mon, 25 Sep 2000 11:23:19 -0400
>>> Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com> said:

> This is a good idea (and I think the code used to do this) but it should
> probably just always force the first argument into Windows format.  A cygwin
> app will always use the argv array and a non-cygwin app will always use the
> argument list, so...

I misunderstood how the iscygexec method works. I believed it
should examine whether a file is a cygwin app. I expected too
much of it without reading the code. It isn't so easy.
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  | AIST      Kazuhiro Fujieda <fujieda@jaist.ac.jp>
  | HOKURIKU  School of Information Science
o_/ 1990      Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

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