Jeenu V wrote on Monday, January 12, 2009 11:45 AM:
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 9:58 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin)
> <reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com> wrote:
>> Just run the app without 'cygstart'?
>
> :) Well this was related to one of my earlier posts, if you recall,
> where I had problems with running cmd.exe from screen. I now work
> that around by calling cmd.exe with cygstart. Everything works fine -
> just that I wanted to know if there's a way to make cygstart wait for
> the application to finish.
Currently there isn't; see
$ man cygstart
$ cygstart --help
You could always apply the patch that you mentioned earlier yourself
and re-compile cygstart.
Work-around: You might try the following.
$ cmd /c start /wait
You also might want to see if start's "/b" option helps.
B Start application without creating a new window. The
application has ^C handling ignored. Unless the application
enables ^C processing, ^Break is the only way to interrupt
the application
(Please note that I've never even tried "/b" -- my suggestion comes
from start /?, not any experience.)
- Barry
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