Re: request for new feature

[Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 12:03:37PM -0400, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
>
> > Alexander Gottwald wrote:
> >
> >
> > > On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > >  /* we must build this string with information about mount points */
> > > > >  const char* command = "c:\\cygwin\\usr\\x11r6\\xterm.exe -display 
> > > > >  :0.0";
> > > >
> > > > That line and comment are really the crux of my whole argument.  It is 
> > > > simple to spawn a process.  It is not necessarily so simple to use a 
> > > > non-hardcoded path to the executables
> > >
> > >
> > > The code from cygpath has a conversion unix_path->windows_path.
> >
> > No, I mean we have to find the path that XWin.exe was started from so 
> > that we can find xterm.  We can't just hardcode c:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin.
>
>
> Why is this an issue?  Why can't you just add "/usr/X11R6/bin" to your
> PATH?  There is no need to convert pathnames to windows format.  Cygwin
> does that for you.

Depends on if we use Cygwin's fork or Window's CreateProcess.  We 
haven't made that decision yet.

> > > > , nor is it so easy to ensure that 
> > > > zombie consoles are not created in the process.
> > >
> > >
> > > They'll die when the xserver kills the connection. Otoh there are a lot of
> > > options (esp. the PROCESS_GROUP things) which control such process 
> > > inheritance.
> >
> > That's not what I meant.  What I meant was we don't want 10 little 
> > console windows, one for each of the xterms that we started up.  Thus, 
> > we may either need to call 'run.exe', or we may need to do what 
> > 'run.exe' does internally.
>
>
> If xwin has any kind of console attached to it, you won't see the
> extra consoles windows.  There is code in cygwin (fhandler_tty.cc) for
> creating invisible console windows on NT, fwiw.
>
>
> > > Lets see if someone builds these (in my opinion useless) things.
> >
> > I think that having a non-hardcoded path and no useless console windows 
> > are essential.  I wouldn't distribute a version that didn't have those 
> > two things.
>
>
> I agree that these are two crucial goals for this.  It should be flexible
> and it shouldn't have those annoying console popups.  Not that my opinion
> matters in this case...
>
> cgf