Can't figure out how to pass command arguments via cygstart

Michael Schaap cygwin@mscha.org
Fri Sep 20 13:09:00 GMT 2002


On 20-9-2002 18:05, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Andre Srinivasan wrote:
> 
> 
>>...
>>AS> Works for me.  Add it to the man page and we'll call it a feature.
>>
>>IP> It already IS a feature.  The getopt function will stop processing
>>IP> switches when it encounters the '--' option.
>>
>>You know that and I know that (now).  I was just suggesting that
>>adding this to the man page will eliminate these kinds of questions.
>>                                                                -andre.
> 
> 
> Agreed.  Below is a minimal patch against cygutils-1.1.2, feel free to
> expand on it.

(snip)

Thanks.
When Chuck comes back from the dead, I'll make sure this gets included. 
  (I'll probably also add an example or two.)

  - Michael


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