From: cgf AT cygnus DOT com (Christopher G. Faylor)
Subject: Re: More on relative pathname
16 Jan 1999 04:14:28 GMT
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In article <369E5416 DOT 3498DC6B DOT cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cityweb DOT de>,
Corinna Vinschen <corinna DOT vinschen AT cityweb DOT de> wrote:
>Gordon Watts (Brown University) wrote:
>> 
>> Taking the suggestion of Earnie Boyd, I replaced the #!/bin/sh in my sample
>> script with #!/bin/bash. Now the relative path names work fine.
>> Unfortunately, I can't make this change in all the code I'm running (this is
>> a port with a common source base), so I still need to get sh to work
>> correctly, but it is an interesting data point, none the less. Would this
>> indicate a problem in sh or in the cygwin dll below it? I guess it depends
>> upon how sh invokes sub-shells.
>> 
>>         Cheers,
>>                 Gordon.
>
>Copy bash.exe to /bin/sh.exe and it will work, without changing the script.

At the expense of substantial performance penalty.

It's a cygwin bug, fixed in the latest snapshot.
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