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Re: [BUG?] run.exe and pdflatex


On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> On Jan 10 23:57, Igor Peshansky wrote:
> > On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Sven Köhler wrote:
> > > So the question is: who does all the checks (shebang, etc.)?
> > > - the execve implementation? (which is cygwin, right?)
> > > - the shell?
> > > - both?
> >
> > The shell.
> > 	Igor
>
> Cygwin's exec(3) calls have shebang magic builtin as described in
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/exec.html

Indeed.  Sorry, I missed the call to newargv.fixup in spawn_guts...

So, what was the reason, then, to remove "si.wShowWindow = SW_HIDE" from
spawn_guts in CVS?  Having it makes it much easier to fix run.exe
appropriately...
	Igor
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