Mail Archives: cygwin/1998/11/11/20:53:44
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---Austin David France <adf AT mentor-systems DOT com> wrote:
>
> Yes. ^C breaks out of it though.
>
> I have since switched back to the b20 release of bash (2.01.1(2)) to
avoid
> having to have the b19 DLL loaded (I wonder if they will happily
co-exist)
> and the problem now seems intermittent. One invocation of bash, it
works
> OK, yet another invocation of bash it hangs.
>
> Humm... Just testing it now, and it's changed again. I have a
script called
> "vi" which is a wrapper for vim/vile (it parses the arguments for me).
>
> In /mentor I have a symbolic link bin -> /d/Mentor/bin (i.e.
/mentor/bin is
> a link to /d/Mentor/Bin).
>
> Here are some example of how it changes, these commands were all
performed
> as I was composing this mail in the same instance of bash.
>
> $ vi /tmp/oz
> /d/Mentor/Bin/: Can't open /d/Mentor/Bin/
> $ /d/Mentor/Bin/vi /tmp/oz
> (thrown into vim on /tmp/oz)
> $ export PATH=/bin:/mentor/bin:/usr/local/bin
> $ vi
> hangs, bash.exe eating CPU (believe this is the parent bash)
> ^C interrupts
> $ vi /tmp/oz
> (thrown into vim on /tmp/oz)
> $ cd /bin
> $ sh.exe
> do some stuff (echo etc) and exit
> $ vi /tmp/oz
> /mentor/bin/: /mentor/bin/: Permission Denied
> $ /mentor/bin/vi /tmp/oz
> (thrown into vim on /tmp/oz)
> $ export PATH=/bin:/d/Mentor/Bin:/usr/local/bin
> $ vi /tmp/oz
> (thrown into vim on /tmp/oz)
> $ vi /tmp/oz
> hangs, ^c interrupts
> $ export PATH=/bin:/mentor/bin:/usr/local/bin
> $ vi /tmp/oz
> /mentor/bin/: /mentor/bin/: Permission Denied
> $ /mentor/bin/vi /tmp/oz
> (thrown into vim on /tmp/oz)
>
> If I run my script using an aboslubte path, it reliably works.
>
> My ORIGIONAL path (when bash was loaded) did contain spaces.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com
[mailto:owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com]On
> > Behalf Of Matt Behrens
> > Sent: 06 November 1998 12:14
> > Cc: Gnu-Win32 Mailing List (E-mail)
> > Subject: Re: B20 & bash 2.02.1(2) broken
> >
> >
> > Hmm. Did it hang when it wouldn't execute those scripts? If so,
that
> > might well explain part of the problem with configure scripts not
> > working.
> >
> > Austin David France wrote:
> > >
> > > CYGWIN_NT-4.0 MENPC1 20.0 (0.1/1/1) 1998-10-29 15:33:43 i486
unknown
> > > BASH 2.02.1(2)-release
> > > NTW40 Y2KSP4
> > >
> > > I installed B20, and discovered a problem with the version of
> > bash shipped
> > > with b20.
> > >
> > > I can log in using cygnus.bat OK, however logins via inetd don't
work.
> > >
> > > Further investigation reveals a very strange problem. Bash
> > 2.02.1(2) won't
> > > execute a script whose name is less than 6 characters long.
> > >
> > > A colleagues is experiencing exactly the same problem, except
that bash
> > > won't execute a script whose name is less than 4 characters long.
> > >
> > > An interesting co-incidence is that I have 6 dos drive letters,
> > my colleague
> > > has only 4. I am sure this is just a weird co-incidence.
> > >
> > > I have replaced bash 2.02.1(2) with bash 2.02.1(1) and this
corrects the
> > > problem for both short script names and inetd (which was
presumably a
> > > related problem)
> > >
> > > Austin David France
> > > Mentor Systems plc
> > > mailto:adf AT mentor-systems DOT com
> > >
> > >
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