Greetings, Julio Costa! >>>>>And this is where my head got reeeally spinning... can anyone, please, >>>>>explain the reason to why this .exe magic exists, anyway? >> >> As far as I understand it, the original reason for it was that Windows >> 9x always required it. Of course Cygwin 1.7 no longer supports 9x, so >> from that perspective, it's no longer needed. >>
> That's how I see it too. WinAPI CreateProcess(Ex) were never required any specific extension. To the latest extent of it, extensions is ONLY, SOLELY a shell issue. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@freemail.ru) 10.06.2010, <14:18> Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
