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Re: latest cygwin: 'run' problem
- From: Gerry Reno <greno at verizon dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 21:14:50 -0400
- Subject: Re: latest cygwin: 'run' problem
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On 09/03/2014 03:48 PM, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Gerry Reno writes:
>> On the 32-bit system cygwin installs that haven't been updated yet 'run.exe' shows:
>>
>> $ ls -l /usr/bin/run.exe
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 Administrator None 65053 Jul 24 2013 /usr/bin/run.exe
>>
>> On a 32-bit system with this latest cygwin 'run.exe' shows:
>>
>> $ ls -l /usr/bin/run.exe
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 SYSTEM SYSTEM 66077 Jun 9 13:16 /usr/bin/run.exe
>>
>> Filesize is different so something has changed there.
> A "cygcheck -f /usr/bin/run.exe" would be more enlightening, although I
> think the two versions of run should be 1.3.0 and 1.3.1. If so then the
> reason for mstsc not recognizing the options would be the patch by Max
> Polk that quotes all the arguments (the change description said it'd
> quote only arguments with spaces in them, but the code actually quotes
> all of them anyway). This also means that mstsc seems to implement its
> own version of options processing or argument quoting (probably the
> former since options to mstsc need not be quoted). The quoting function
> in the current version of run is too naive anyway, so I'll have to
> update it with something more sensible. It'll be a few days, sorry for
> the inconvenience.
>
>
> Regards,
> Achim.
Can run-1.3.0-1 be added back into the Setup as an alternate choice until 'run' can be fixed?
Gerry
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