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Re: modified cygwin.bat for rxvt - window does not stay up in 1.7.2
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:21:59 +0100
- Subject: Re: modified cygwin.bat for rxvt - window does not stay up in 1.7.2
- References: <15378-1269528055-416049@sneakemail.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Mar 25 14:40, j8raa6t5a9@snkmail.com wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote at 21:20 +0100 on Mar 24, 2010:
> > On Mar 24 20:16, Andy Koppe wrote:
> > > Andy Koppe:
> > > > j8raa6t5a9:
> > > >> I updated to 1.7.2 and the cygwin.bat I modified ages ago to run rxvt does not work anymore. The window pops up and quickly disappears (I'm using\
> Windows XP).
> > > >>
> > > >> cygwin.bat looks like:
> > > >> @echo off
> > > >> C:
> > > >> chdir C:\cygwin\bin
> > > >> rxvt -e bash --login -i
> > > >
> > > > Does changing 'bash' to '/bin/bash' make a difference?
> > >
> > > Answering my own question: yes.
> > >
> > > There was a change in execvp()'s behaviour to no longer look up an
> > > executable in the current working directory, wasn't there? I can't
> > > find it in the ChangeLog though.
>
> Yes, adding full paths to anything I exec fixes it for me.
> In reality, I use ssh-agent, too, so it becomes:
>
> ssh-agent /bin/rxvt -e /bin/bash --login -i
Alternatively:
path C:\cygwin\bin;%path%
ssh-agent rxvt -e bash --login -i
Corinna
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