run.exe and startxwin.bat [was: 'run xterm' fails to open a window]

[Lothar Brendel]

Mike Ayers wrote:
>> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-
>> owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Lothar Brendel
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 4:52 PM
>
>> E.g. in a Windows command prompt or a non-X11 cygwin-console, the
>> command
>>     run sleep -wait 5
>> does *not* wait for the sleep to terminate. Moreover
>>     run false -wait
>> does *not* set %errorlevel% to 1.
>
> Why are you using run for these?

I normally don't. It was what I boiled down the non-functioning line
    %RUN% checkX -wait -d %DISPLAY% -t 12
in startxwin.bat (from xinit-1.1.1-6.tar.bz2) to.

Like that, the "-wait" has no effect and a non-running X-server isn't 
reflected in %errorlevel%, either.

And (of course) I can confirm the correct behaviour when using sh.exe 
instead of run.exe. Which brings us to the question of using run.exe in 
startxwin.bat. I don't see the point of hoping for a windowless console 
there, since a BAT-script always opens a window anyway (even when starting 
with "@echo off" and outputting nothing).

Hence, wouldn't be sh.exe instead of run.exe the right thing for 
startxwin.bat?

Asks
        Lothar


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