Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com From: Chris Faylor Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 09:03:13 -0400 To: "'cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com'" Subject: Re: Cygwin 1.0: Error when launching MSDOS bat file from bash on Windows 2000 Message-ID: <20000425090313.B9891@cygnus.com> Reply-To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Mail-Followup-To: cgf@cygnus.com, "'cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com'" References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.1.12i In-Reply-To: ; from Guillaume.Berche@mkms.xerox.com on Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 03:00:02PM +0200 On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 03:00:02PM +0200, Berche, Guillaume wrote: >>I'm talking about path translation and you're quoting "File >>permissions". I don't understand. > >Well, I would think that if cygwin tags a file as executable, then it >would also be able to translate its path to execute appropriately. In >the same way than when a file starts with "#! /bin/perl" cygwin would >mark the file as executable and invoke /bin/perl to "translate" the >path, I would think that cygwin would mark ".bat" files as executable >and invoke the MSDOS shell to execute them (i.e. "translate" their >path). > >Am I making false assumptions here? And, if cygwin invokes the MSDOS shell using this path: command.com /foo/bar/blaz/blat.bat what kind of behavior would you predict? cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com