[tex-live] How does pdflatex call mktexpk on windows

[Akira Kakuto]

Dear Lars Madsen,

> I'm not looking for a solution to the problem just an explanation as to
> how exactly mktexpk is called from pdflatex on Windows.

I don't know texstudio and your problem, but mktexpk
is called like
retvalue = _spawnvp(_P_NOWAIT, $SELFAUTOLOC\mktexpk.exe,
                                    (const char * const *) args);

Best,
Akira