Mail Archives: cygwin/1997/02/15/01:30:19
Scott,
Is there any chance you could share those modifications with the
folks on this list? We're trying to solve a nasty problem with
spawning shell processes and your fix could be a great help to us.
Thanks in advance for your help.
On 27 Jan 97 at 16:14, Scott Kempf <scottk AT utig DOT ig DOT utexas DOT edu>
wrote, concerning: Re: Shell scripts?:
> It is possible that you have more than one version of bash.
> Make sure that all your bash.exe and sh.exe are the same
> file length. Fork sometimes grabs the wrong executable.
>
> #!/usr/local/bin/perl.exe
>
> Will not work. Nor will "#!/bin/sh -x".
>
> I've made a patch to winsup/spawn.cc that seems to fix this.
> I haven't sent it out yet, since I wanted to make sure it
> was right. It seems that every version of UNIX I've tested
> rewrites the arguments a little differently, so I just did
> my own style.
>
> Can anyone tell me where I might find POSIX or X/OPEN system
> standards on the web?
>
> Scott
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