1.5.18: Problem launching URLs from Pine

Tue Aug 30 13:07:00 GMT 2005

Hello,
I've come across a problem with Pine under Cygwin.
I've tried this with 
the stock Cygwin version of Pine (latest available
from Setup: 4.58-1), 
and have also compiled up the latest version (4.63)
and had the same 
result. I've also tried version 4.60 on Solaris and
could not reproduce 
the problem.
I'm trying to use the "url-viewers" setting in my
.pinerc to launch an 
external app to handle urls supplied in emails.
However, I cannot get 
anything to work. At the moment I've set
 url-viewers = /home/ant/bin/viewUrl
in my .pinerc where viewUrl is a 1-line script as
follows:
 echo 1ドル >> /tmp/viewUrl.log
When run from the command line this (obviously) works
fine. However, 
running it from Pine by hitting Enter on a URL and
answering 'yes' to 
the 'View selected URL "http:...."', Pine reports
"VIEWER Command 
Completed", but nothing is added to the log file. On
Solaris this works 
fine; the log is updated.
Running Pine with -d 9 (highest debug level) I get
the output below 
(only relevant bits shown).
I presume the problem is somewhere in the
open_system_pipe method in 
pine/osdep/os-cyg.c, but my C and/or Cygwin internals
knowledge is 
pretty limited.
If anyone's get time to take a look, it'd be much
appreciated.
Thanks,
Ant.
===
Relevant "pine -d 9" output:
 12:46:02.873219
 Want_to read: y (121)
 12:46:02.873219
 resume_busy_alarm
 12:46:02.873219
 Opening pipe: "/home/ant/bin/viewUrl
'http://www.google.com'" (UT)
 12:46:02.873219
 about to end_tty_driver
 12:46:02.873219
 end_screen called
 12:46:02.915219
 PID: 2800, COMMAND: /home/ant/bin/viewUrl
'http://www.google.com'
 12:46:02.915219
 new mail called (force=0 VeryBad flags=0x0)
 12:46:02.916219
 INBOX: force=0 interval=150 exp_reap_to=300
adj_idle_to=1650
 12:46:02.916219
 since_last_ping=4 since_last_reap=5
 12:46:02.916219
 ******** new mail returning -1 ********
 12:46:02.918219
 fix_windsize()
 12:46:02.919219
 new win size -----<26 170>------

 12:46:02.919219
 Closed pipe: PID=2800: status=255
 12:46:02.919219
 q_status_message(VIEWER command completed)

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