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On 3/30/2012 12:04 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote:Interesting... I expected it was doing strchr(aPath, ':') to detect URLS.On 30/03/2012 11:14 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:On Mar 30 09:43, Ryan Johnson wrote:On 30/03/2012 9:27 AM, Ken Brown wrote:http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#IAFNABIf I type `cygstart mailto:recipient?subject=subject' at a Cygwin bash prompt, I expect my default Windows mail program to start an outgoing message with `recipient' as recipient and `subject' as subject. (This is what happens if I type the same URL into a `Start Menu -> Run' box.) What happens instead is that `recipient?subject=subject' shows up as the recipient, with the question mark replaced by something unprintable, and the subject is blank.
Is this a bug in cygstart, or am I misunderstanding something?I suspect a bug in the way cygwin1.dll handles conversion from unix- to windows-style paths.
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-specialchars
Makes sense... for files, but we're dealing with a URL here, so it *is* a bug IMO (but you're right, not a bug in cygwin's handling of windows-style paths).
Cygstart knows it's dealing with a URL.
Actually, it doesn't, and that's the problem. Here's the relevant code in cygstart.c:
/* Start a program, or open a file or URL, using Cygwin POSIX paths */
static int
cygStart (const char *aPath, const wchar_t * action,
const wchar_t * args, const char *workDir,
int show, StartFlags startFlags)
[...]
/* Convert file path from POSIX to Windows, unless it looks like a URL */
if (!strstr (aPath, "://"))
Chuck, what would you think of changing this so that cygstart would recognize `mailto:' URLs? It would also be useful if cygstart could learn to handle `file://' URLs involving POSIX paths.
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