PATCH: cygutils/cygstart - wait till task terminates (i.e. run in foreground)

[Michael Schaap]

On 11-Aug-2008 18:26, Barry Kelly wrote:
> I find cygstart useful generally, but ShellExecute/Ex has more options
> than cygstart exposes.
>
> In particular, I'd like to be able to write a script that starts an
> action and waits for it to complete, and then perform another action.
> This means that I don't want cygstart to return until the process it has
> started exits (modulo MDI etc).
>
> ShellExecuteEx can return the process handle, which can then be waited
> on.
>
> I've written a patch against cygutils-1.3.2-1 that implements this
> functionality via a new "-w | --wait" argument.
>
> I've attached the patch for review. Is there any other place I should be
> posting to submit this patch?
>
>   
This is the right place, as far as I'm concerned.

This seems useful and the patch looks good at first glance, but I'll 
have a better look at it, probably this weekend.

Thanks,

– Michael

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