"run" changes behavior with cygwin-17.6

[David Rothenberger]

On 8/18/2010 10:12 AM, Charles Wilson wrote:
> On 8/18/2010 11:09 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> Looks like the "run" tool now needs a call to
>>
>>    CYGWIN_CONV_TO_POSIX_PATH ((get_cwd (), win32_cwd));
>>
>> and then use win32_cwd in the call to CreateProcess.
>>
>> See http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#pathnames-win32-api
> 
> Yep. run2 also needs a similar update.
> 
> Thanks for the heads up; I didn't really think about how the recent
> changes to cygwin's cwd handling would affect those two packages.

I noticed a similar change in cygstart, too. I used to have a script
that would cd to a directory and then run cygstart. After the upgrade to
1.7.6, this stopped working. I had to use the --directory switch to
cygstart to get the right behavior.

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