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Re: Can't figure out how to pass command arguments via cygstart

On 20-9-2002 18:05, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Andre Srinivasan wrote:



...
AS> Works for me.  Add it to the man page and we'll call it a feature.

IP> It already IS a feature.  The getopt function will stop processing
IP> switches when it encounters the '--' option.

You know that and I know that (now).  I was just suggesting that
adding this to the man page will eliminate these kinds of questions.
                                                               -andre.


Agreed.  Below is a minimal patch against cygutils-1.1.2, feel free to
expand on it.
(snip)

Thanks.
When Chuck comes back from the dead, I'll make sure this gets included. (I'll probably also add an example or two.)

- Michael


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