Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 22:20:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: luke.kendall@cisra.canon.com.au cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Updated Cygwin package: bash-2.05b-16 In-Reply-To: <20031024004655.893E434C52@nevin.research.canon.com.au> Message-ID: References: <20031024004655.893E434C52@nevin.research.canon.com.au> Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 luke.kendall@cisra.canon.com.au wrote: > On 23 Oct, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > > Version 2.05b-16 of the Bash package is now available for download. > > > > This is a bugfix release relative to 2.05b-15, and fixes the bug reported > > and patched in http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-10/msg01166.html. > > Might ash (/bin/sh) suffer from the same problem? Might this explain > why /etc/XFree86-bin-icons.sh often hangs the install when it does > the backtic cygpath and has to be killed? > > luke Actually, the problem with XFree86-bin-icons *was* a bash problem. Setup.exe ran /etc/postinstall/XFree86-bin-icons.sh using /bin/sh, and that called a *bash* script (/usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86-bin-icons.sh, with "#!/bin/bash" magic). When cygpath was run from there (within backticks) it hung. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/