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Re: Why can't run.exe execute a shebang script directly?
- From: John Wiersba <jrw32982 at yahoo dot com>
- To: Eric Blake <eblake at redhat dot com>, "cygwin at cygwin dot com" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 09:40:52 -0700
- Subject: Re: Why can't run.exe execute a shebang script directly?
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- Reply-to: John Wiersba <jrw32982 at yahoo dot com>
> From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
> On 10/24/2014 09:19 AM, John Wiersba wrote:
>
>> I thought that all (or virtually all) cygwin-supplied programs that start
>> other programs use the cygwin1.dll execve(2) emulation to start them,
> because
>> the execve emulation can be used to start *both* cygwin programs and
> windows
>> native programs. Or at least it seems that way to me.
>>
>> Is there be in drawback to having run.exe start its target program using
>> the execve emulation in cygwin1.dll, rather than using a Windows call to
>> start the target executable?
>
> run.exe is special. In order to hide consoles, it MUST use native
> windows API instead of cygwin1.dll calls.
OK -- I guess that settles it, then! Thanks!
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