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Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 10:17:41 -0500
From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <pierre DOT humblet AT ieee DOT org>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Postinstall failure: file not found
Message-ID: <20030404151741.GA249497@Worldnet>
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On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 10:18:40AM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> OK, I've got it:
> 
> /> sh -c sayhi
> hi
> /> sh -c /sayhi
> /sayhi: not found
> 
> With strace I saw that sh uses stat (which won't show rxw rights
> in this case) and it behaves differently for absolute paths.
> 
> Possible fixes:
> 1) cd to /etc/postinstall before running the scripts and use relative paths
> 2) Put my 2nd ntsec patch in setup (I have asked Rudiyanto to test it)
> 3) Run the postinstall scripts with CYGWIN=nontsec, for boostrap.
>    Note that scripts that rely on ntsec (chmod or chown) will need to turn 
>    ntsec on.
> 4) patch sh.exe
> 5) ???
Use bash
/> bash -c /sayhi
hi
/> bash -c sayhi
hi
6) ???

Pierre



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