cygstart getting The specified file was not found

Tue Dec 12 13:23:00 GMT 2006

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> Does cygstart use CreateProcess and/or GetCurrentDirectory instead of
> fork/exec/getcwd?
>> If so, cygstart will have to call cygwin_internal(CW_SYNC_WINENV) before
> using the native Windows functions.
>
No, it uses ShellExecute (see "cygstart --reference"). It does indeed 
need to sync the environment, but it does this using its own code. 
(Predates cygwin_internal(CW_SYNC_WINENV); I still need to change 
cygstart some day to use it.)
However, this is unrelated to this problem, things go wrong long before 
that. It appears that cygwin_conv_to_win32_path incorrectly determines 
the current working directory.
It is called as follows:
 cygwin_conv_to_win32_path(aPath, winPath);
where aPath == "hello.txt".
The current directory is "/cygdrive/c/user" =~ "c:\user", but 
cygwin_conv_to_win32_path thinks that:
 normalize_posix_path: /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/hello.txt = 
normalize_posix_path (hello.txt)
(See Eric's messages for more debugging info.)
 - Michael
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