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 Message-ID: <42CDE324.598BD4CA@dessent.net> Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 19:21:24 -0700 From: Brian Dessent MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Perl Win32::Shortcut screws up fork References: <7231C15EAC2F164CA6DC326D97493C8BA1C3FA@exchange35.fed.cclrc.ac.uk> <42CDD3B8.69B6AB98@dessent.net> <20050708011859.GB24841@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <42CDD9CB.8390A097@dessent.net> <42CDDEDC.10908@byu.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Report: -5.9/5.0 ---- Start SpamAssassin results * -3.3 ALL_TRUSTED Did not pass through any untrusted hosts * -2.6 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% * [score: 0.0000] * 0.0 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list ---- End SpamAssassin results X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Eric Blake wrote: > coreutils already requires libintl and libiconv since 5.2.1 days, so most > useful actions in a postinstall script have already depended on having > libraries available as part of Base. Based on several months of no > complaints, I think we can discount the theoretical problems of this scenario. Postinstall scripts almost universally have /bin/sh in the shebang, and so were using ash regardless of which bash was installed. The recent replacement of /bin/sh with bash means that prior to now we had no experience in this area. Brian -- 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/