Subject: RE: Bug: Cygwin crashes when bash is called repeatedly from a .ba t file
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked], [email-masked]
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 16:31:19 -0500

At 04:14 PM 12/5/2000, [email-masked] wrote:
>I found the solution to this problem buried in a very useful Web page written by Steve Chamberlain ([email-masked]).  The URL for the Web page is:
>      http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/m3doc/linux/text/cygwin/faq.txt
>
>The pertinent parts of the Web page follow:
>...
>Installation
>============
>...
>    For bash, you'll need to create a directory called `/tmp', and put a
>copy of `bash.exe' into `/bin/sh.exe' and `/usr/bin/sh.exe'.
>...
>Bash says that it can't fork (or just hangs) - why ?
>====================================================
>
>    Most often this is because it can't find itself in the path.  Make
>sure that your path includes the directory where bash lives, before you
>start it.
>
>    If you get errors like 'no such file or directory' when you're trying
>to run a shell script, which you know is there, then your problem
>probably that bash can't find `/bin/sh'.
>...
>
>
>Here is my question:  If this is a known issue, why doesn't the installation GUI go ahead and do the copies for the user?  That would have saved me a lot of grief, and I am sure that other people must encounter the same problem.
>
>Thanks,
>
>    Craig

Setup mounts /bin to /usr/bin and /usr/bin is where sh lives.  At 
installation time, sh is NOT bash but ash.  The only way you could run
into the problem described by Steve now is if you modify your sh to be 
bash but do so inconsistently.  That's my best guess as to why you had 
the problem.  The issue Steve's note describes is not a problem with the
current installer.

Larry Hall                              [email-masked]
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