- I had the exact same problem - "how do I get at the entrypoint and follow this" - only earlier today, with Chromium. I was trying to figure out why sync was broken and thought I'd try and follow the (C++) breadcrumbs. It didn't go very well. https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=671498
- AFAIK, cmd.exe is basically a horrible, horrible hack. I'm not 100% sure, but I think an instance of cmd.exe is the only way you can run things with a stdout, as in Windows has no concept of TTYs - the cmd.exe process uses a bunch of undocumented kernel interface APIs to "make it work™". Related: https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/111#issuec...
Edit/Update: PSA, if you use a sync passphrase with Chrome your history from other devices doesn't show up in chrome://history. Known bug, will hopefully be rearchitected long-term.
I have to say though, the writeup on that Chromium ticket I filed was absolutely awesome. Did someone here notice...? :P
- I had the exact same problem - "how do I get at the entrypoint and follow this" - only earlier today, with Chromium. I was trying to figure out why sync was broken and thought I'd try and follow the (C++) breadcrumbs. It didn't go very well. https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=671498
- AFAIK, cmd.exe is basically a horrible, horrible hack. I'm not 100% sure, but I think an instance of cmd.exe is the only way you can run things with a stdout, as in Windows has no concept of TTYs - the cmd.exe process uses a bunch of undocumented kernel interface APIs to "make it work™". Related: https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/111#issuec...