> From: Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> > On 10/24/2014 09:19 AM, John Wiersba wrote: > >> I thought that all (or virtually all) cygwin-supplied programs that start >> other programs use the cygwin1.dll execve(2) emulation to start them, > because >> the execve emulation can be used to start *both* cygwin programs and > windows >> native programs. Or at least it seems that way to me. >> >> Is there be in drawback to having run.exe start its target program using >> the execve emulation in cygwin1.dll, rather than using a Windows call to >> start the target executable? > > run.exe is special. In order to hide consoles, it MUST use native > windows API instead of cygwin1.dll calls.
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