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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: run-1.1.11-1
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Aug 14 17:39, Ken Brown wrote:
>> On 8/14/2009 2:48 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>>> Given that the X server shortcut is just a `run /usr/bin/startxwin.bat',
>>>> is it possible that the new incarnation doesn't start cmd correctly?
>>> I built with -DDEBUG and it appears that startxwin.bat runs fine,
>>> but the "run within run" inside of startxwin.bat
>>>
>>> %RUN% XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error
>>>
>>> fails silently.
>> I can confirm that the shortcut to start the X server doesn't work on my
>> XP system with the patched run. But my shortcut for starting emacs
>> (http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-08/msg00379.html), which has a very
>> similar run within run, works fine.
>
> Apparently `run XWin' doesn't work at all anymore, everything else seems
> to work fine. A shortcut starting XWin directly w/o run works fine as
> well. Is XWin allergic against the pipe redirection, maybe?
Hmm. I've been testing using the XMing xserver, just to avoid any
possible complications on the client side; that's why I didn't notice
the problem.
It seems that emacs.exe (and even emacs-X11,exe) are both console
programs, while XWin.exe is a GUI program (that is, "objdump -p $prog |
grep ^Subsystem" reports
Subsystem 00000002 (Windows GUI)
rather than
Subsystem 00000003 (Windows CUI)
So...food for thought.
Anyway, I thought about adding a cmdline switch to run, to allow the
user to choose whether stdio handle redirection should happen. But I'd
really rather it were automatic. Then I got to thinking, /IF/ the
problem is GUI mode programs, then...maybe run can probe the PE header,
determine if the target is already GUI, and if so...just launch it using
exec (_spawn on MinGW)?
That way, all this mess is avoided -- really, the console-hiding
property of "run" is kinda pointless for GUI progs; the only value it
adds in that case is (a) -p setting the PATH, and (b) -wait. So...just
skip all the console-hiding stuff.
Do you think this idea is worth pursuing?
--
Chuck
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