Re: [Mingw-users] mShell: mSys spawning system

[Keith M. <kei...@to...>]

Earnie Boyd wrote, quoting me:
>> Julien Lecomte wrote, quoting me:
>>>> Chris Sutcliffe wrote, quoting Greg Chicares:
>>>> [concerning design goals for Julien Lecomte's mShell project]
>>>>>> It would be nice if this program could wrap different shells.
>>>>>> I use MSYS bash for './configure && make', zsh for everyday
>>>>>> work, and ash to make sure scripts are reasonably portable.
>>>>
>>>> Yeah.  Just like in any terminal session on *nix, it should be
>>>> capable of running any shell -- even cmd.exe, for masochists :)
>>>
>>> Yes, I plan to support many shells, but until you mentionned it,
>>> I wasn't sick minded enough to think about supporting cmd.exe !
>>
>> Oh, I wasn't suggesting that you should go out of your way to
>> support it;  simply that, if you've got the term infrastructure
>> right, then it should "Just Work"(TM).
>
> It even works in MSYS RXVT.  Try it out
>   ``start rxvt -e /path/to/cmd.exe''.

Yep.  I sort of hinted at this yesterday, when I said that an
`exec cmd.exe', in a routinely started MSYS RXVT, would replace
bash with cmd.exe, as the login shell.

Of course, this is a more direct way to achieve the same goal,
(and, while it may be an interesting experiment, it does nothing
 to mitigate the pty problem).

Regards,
Keith.