From: "Wm. David Bentlage" <slomium+cygwin@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: cygstart, mailto: URLs, and launching an executable
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 22:44:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTim-rmQ1=Sot6LkRHJd4Pbo08OEyxw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTimf=TW2b=XJf2AUAWZ-_BLOJi+r+w@mail.gmail.com>
Hi,
What's the reason for the following change in cygstart between cygwin
1.5 and 1.7? Can the cygwin 1.5 behavior be restored?
ai016aadm01@app-stl-33 ~
$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.2 app-stl-33 1.5.24(0.156/4/2) 2007-01-31 10:57 i686 Cygwin
ai016aadm01@app-stl-33 ~
$ cygstart -v mailto:
ShellExecute(NULL, "(null)", "mailto:", "(null)", "(null)", 1)
ai016aadm01@app-stl-33 ~
$ cygstart -v bash
ShellExecute(NULL, "(null)", "bash", "(null)", "(null)", 1)
ai016aadm01@app-stl-33 ~
$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.2 app-stl-33 1.7.9(0.237/5/3) 2011-03-29 10:10 i686 Cygwin
ai016aadm01@app-stl-33 ~
$ cygstart -v mailto:
ShellExecute(NULL, "(null)", "W:\home\m278638\mailto", "(null)", "(null)", 1)
Unable to start 'W:\home\m278638\mailto': The specified file was not found.
ai016aadm01@app-stl-33 ~
$ cygstart -v bash
ShellExecute(NULL, "(null)", "W:\home\m278638\bash", "(null)", "(null)", 1)
Unable to start 'W:\home\m278638\bash': The specified file was not found.
Under cygwin 1.5, I could open a new email in the default application
using "cygstart mailto:". Under cygwin 1.7, I get an error.
Performing "cygstart mailto://" will get cygwin 1.7 cygstart to
recognize mailto: as a URL instead of a file, but that's not proper
mailto: URL syntax.
Under cygwin 1.5, a new bash window is launched (per the man page).
Under cygwin 1.7, I get an error. I can open bash in cygwin 1.7 if I
specify the full path to the bash executable.
Thanks,
Dave B.
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2011-04-19 22:44 ` Wm. David Bentlage [this message]
2011-04-20 1:11 ` Charles Wilson
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