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Re: modified cygwin.bat for rxvt - window does not stay up in 1.7.2


On Mar 25 14:40, j8raa6t5a9@snkmail.com wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote at 21:20 +0100 on Mar 24, 2010:
>  > On Mar 24 20:16, Andy Koppe wrote:
>  > > Andy Koppe:
>  > > > j8raa6t5a9:
>  > > >> I updated to 1.7.2 and the cygwin.bat I modified ages ago to run rxvt does not work anymore.  The window pops up and quickly disappears (I'm using\
>  Windows XP).
>  > > >>
>  > > >> cygwin.bat looks like:
>  > > >> @echo off
>  > > >> C:
>  > > >> chdir C:\cygwin\bin
>  > > >> rxvt -e bash --login -i
>  > > >
>  > > > Does changing 'bash' to '/bin/bash' make a difference?
>  > > 
>  > > Answering my own question: yes.
>  > > 
>  > > There was a change in execvp()'s behaviour to no longer look up an
>  > > executable in the current working directory, wasn't there? I can't
>  > > find it in the ChangeLog though.
>  
> Yes, adding full paths to anything I exec fixes it for me.
> In reality, I use ssh-agent, too, so it becomes:
> 
> ssh-agent /bin/rxvt -e /bin/bash --login -i

Alternatively:

  path C:\cygwin\bin;%path%
  ssh-agent rxvt -e bash --login -i


Corinna

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