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


Andy Koppe:
> j8raa6t5a9:
>> I updated to 1.7.2 and the cygwin.bat I modified ages ago to run rxvt does not work anymore. ÂThe 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.

Andy

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