RE: strange behavior regarding new cygwin 1.3.3 and cmd.exe

[Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

> 
> >>>>> "Alexander" == Alexander Gottwald 
> >>>>> <alexander.gottwald@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> writes:
> 
>     Alexander> On 28 Sep 2001, Danny Dulai wrote:
>     >> I didnt update any xfree components tonight, just 
> Cygwin. My XFree
>     >> installation hasn't changed, only Cygwin has.
> 
> The same here. I upgraded only the cygwin1.dll to 1.3.3-2 for 
> testing purposes.
> 
>     Alexander> Can you try running jam in a cmd window with 
> bash (not in xterm). Do
>     Alexander> the windows still popup?
> 
> I found one behaviour of the same kind as Danny mentioned.
> 
> When calling
> 
>   net start inetd
> 
> from an rxvt or xterm window, I get a cmd popup window which 
> shows that net.exe actually calls net1.exe from the same 
> directory (C:\WINNT\system32) in my case. If I call net1 
> directly the output goes in the rxvt/xterm window as expected.

I guess that would be expected, would it not?  net.exe is Windows NT/2000
executable which resides in Windows directory.  BUT on my system (Windows XP
Professional, Final Release) I do not get a windows poped up when I do

net start inetd

Maybe I am missng something?


Regardless, don't you think it is a Cygwin issue then XFree86?

Suhaib

> 
> Calling either from a bash console window doesn't popup a new 
> cmd window.
> 
> Strange enough,
> 
>   net use
> 
> called from a rxvt/xterm window produces output inside the 
> rxvt/xterm window.
> 
> 
> Hmmmmm....
> 
> 
> Ciao
>   Volker
>