startxwin.bat and checkX

[Ken Brown]

On 10/16/2009 10:39 AM, Ken Brown wrote:
> I don't think the line
> 
>    %RUN% checkX -d %DISPLAY% -t 12
> 
> in startxwin.bat accomplishes anything, because run.exe returns
> immediately, and checkX runs in the background.  From 'man run':
> 
> run [ -p path ] command [ -wait ] arguments
> [...]
> Issuing -wait as first program argument will make run wait for program
> completition, otherwise it returns immediately.
> 
> [Chuck: Note the typo in "completition".]
> 
> So I think startxwin.bat should use
> 
>   %RUN% checkX -wait -d %DISPLAY% -t 12
> 

Even better, why bother with run.exe at all?  Why not just use

   %CYGWIN_ROOT%\bin\checkX -d %DISPLAY% -t 12

Ken


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