cygwin 1.5.20 and stalling cygstart

Tue Jul 18 10:32:00 GMT 2006

Krzysztof Duleba wrote:
> I've just upgraded to 1.5.20 to get gvim 7 running and one of my 
> programs doesn't work anymore.
>> I attach simple test case: if you compile foo.cpp and start it from a 
> cygwin shell, it should run OK. However, if you start it from a windows 
> shell / windows explorer / whatnot, you should see stalling cygstart. 
> cygstart process won't exit even when you close notepad, you will have 
> to kill it manually.

Reproduced with the latest snapshot. It can be even further simplified, 
just run 'perl foo.pl' from windows command line.
I include the foo.pl script inline as I've just got several messages about 
my attachments being blocked by antivirus software:
$ cat foo.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl
my $cmd = "cygstart /cygdrive/c/windows/system32/notepad.exe";
$cmd .= " \"foobar\"";
exec($cmd);
Krzysztof Duleba
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