Cygwin/X XWinrc menu no longer launches after recent updates

[Henry S. Thompson]

Takashi Yano writes:

> On Tue, 03 Mar 2020 12:18:44 +0000
> "Henry S. Thompson" wrote:
>> Takashi Yano writes:
>> 
>> > Does reverting cygwin1.dll to 3.1.2 help?
>> 
>> In my case, yes it does.  The resulting view from pstree is
>> 
>> `-sh,1614 /usr/bin/startxwin
>>      `-xinit,1645 /home/ht/.startxwinrc -- /usr/bin/XWin :0 -multiwindow ...
>>          |-XWin,1646 :0 -multiwindow -auth /home/ht/.serverauth.1614
>>          `-sh,1652 /home/ht/.Xclients
>>              |-ssh-agent,1664 /bin/env TMPDIR=/tmp /home/ht/.Xclients
>>              `-xterm,1665 -geometry +0+60 -ls
>>                  `-bash,1666
>>                      `-sh,1684 /home/ht/bin/goE -Y
>>                          `-ssh,1685 ecclerig.inf.ed.ac.uk -Y
>> 
>> Compare this to the 3.1.4 result:
>> 
>> `-sh,2027 /usr/bin/startxwin
>>     `-xinit,2058 /home/ht/.startxwinrc -- /usr/bin/XWin :0 -multiwindow -auth ...
>>         |-XWin,2059 :0 -multiwindow -auth /home/ht/.serverauth.2027
>>         `-sh,2065
>
> Then, this may be caused by the same bug as
> https://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2020-02/msg00197.html
>
> This bug was already fixed in current git head.

Current git head for Cygwin?  Or mintty?

Because I have another box, and now see that the bug does _not_ occur
with Cygwin 3.1.4 and mintty 3.1.0 -- the above error labelled 3.1.4 is
with Cygwin 3.1.4 _and_ mintty 3.1.4.

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