From: adf AT mentor-systems DOT com (Austin David France)
Subject: RE: B20 & bash 2.02.1(2) broken
13 Nov 1998 11:38:59 -0800
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$ type -a vi
bash: type: vi: not found
$ chmod +x /d/Mentor/Bin/vi
$ type -a vi
vi is /d/Mentor/Bin/vi
vi is /d/Mentor/Bin/vi
$ vi /tmp/oz
(hangs, ^C aborts)

vi is a script that starts

	#!/bin/bash
	echo "vi"
	set -x
	cmd="${MEDITOR:-vim}"

It matters not what the #!/bin/<shell> is, (tried sh, ksh and bash) if it
points to a valid shell, it hangs.  If the #! line is missing (blank) or a
silly shell name is put in, for
example #!/bin/winkle then bash reports

	bash: /d/Mentor/Bin/vi: No such file or directory

which is to be expected.

Some more tests with interesting results

	$ cd /d/Mentor/Bin
	$ ln -s vi viabcd
	$ cp vi viabcdef
	$ chmod +x *vi*
	$ vi
	(hangs)
	$ vi viabcdef
	(throws me into vi)
	$ viabcdef
	(throws me into vi on no file)
	$ vi a
	(hangs)
	$ vi winkle
	(hangs)
	$ vi viwinkle
	(throws me into vi)
	$ vi xxwinkle
	(throws me into vi)
	$ vi winklexx
	(theows me into vi)
	$ vi # hello this is a comment
	(hangs)
	$ vi hello this is a comment
	(throws me into vi on files "hello", "this", "is" and so on)

It has to be something to do with the length of the command + it's
arguments.

Austin David France
Mentor Systems plc
mailto:adf AT mentor-systems DOT com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com]
> Sent: 12 November 1998 12:08
> To: Austin David France
> Subject: RE: B20 & bash 2.02.1(2) broken
>
>
>
>
> What does the bash command `type -a vi' show?  Is it possible that
> you're picking up the wrong version of vi?
>
>
> ---Austin David France <adf AT mentor-systems DOT com> wrote:
> >
> > No joy, exactly the same problem.  uname -a reports
> >
> > 	CYGWIN_NT-4.0 MENPC1 20.0 (0.1/1/1) -11-8 11:59:08 i486 unknown
> >
> > I'm guessing the -11-8 is based upon build date of the DLL (8 Nov 98).
> >
> > For example, I just tried
> >
> > 	$ vi /tmp/oz
> > 	(hangs, ^C aborts)
> > 	$ export PATH=/bin:/mentor/bin:/usr/local/bin
> > 	$ vi /tmp/oz
> > 	/mentor/bin/: /mentor/bin/: Permission Denied
> > 	$ /mentor/bin/vi /tmp/oz
> > 	(throws me into vim as expected)
> >
> > A find of cygwin find no other cygwin dll's in the path.  My
> cygwinb19.dll
> > is a copy of the new b20 dll.
> > Austin David France
> > Mentor Systems plc
> > mailto:adf AT mentor-systems DOT com
> >
> <snip>
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