"run" changes behavior with cygwin-17.6

[Andy Koppe]

On 18 August 2010 19:24, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>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.
>
> Call me dense but I don't understand why any changes are needed.  If
> you're cd'ed to a non-Cygwin-special location why doesn't stuff "just
> work"?

The Win32 working directory is changed to '\\?\PIPE\' at process
startup, otherwise the working directory can't be deleted from under
the process, which you can do on Linux.

Andy

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