On Dec 15 14:37, Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget wrote:
> From: Johannes Schindelin <[email protected]>
>
> In 0a9ee3ea23 (Allow executing Windows Store's "app execution aliases",
> 2021-03-12), I introduced support for calling Microsoft Store
> applications.
>
> However, it was reported several times (first in
> https://inbox.sourceware.org/cygwin/CAAM_cieBo_M76sqZMGgF+tXxswvT=juhl_pshff+arv9p1e...@mail.gmail.com
> and then also in
> https://github.com/msys2/MSYS2-packages/issues/1943#issuecomment-3467583078)
> that there is something amiss: The standard handles are not working as
> expected, as they are not connected to the terminal at all (and hence
> the application seems to "hang").
>
> The culprit is the `is_console_app()` function which assumes that it can
> simply open the first few bytes of the `.exe` file to read the PE header
> in order to determine whether it is a console application or not.
>
> For app execution aliases, already creating a regular file handle for
> reading will fail. Let's introduce some special handling for the exact
> error code returned in those instances, and try to read the symlink
> target instead (taking advantage of the code I introduced in 0631c6644e
> (Cygwin: Treat Windows Store's "app execution aliases" as symbolic
> links, 2021-03-22) to treat app execution aliases like symbolic links).
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <[email protected]>
Fixes: <12-digit-SHA1> ("commit message headline")
Thanks,
Corinna
