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Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 19:37:41 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Ash woes. [Was: Re: Installation & Uninstallation issues ]
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On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 07:54:51PM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> The problem recently reported by Tim Dierks in
> <http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-10/msg00273.html>
> turns out to be identical to the one investigated in
> <http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-04/msg00471.html>
> 
> The scripts are executable but ash refuses to execute them.
> Ash uses various methods to make that decision, none of which
> is correct. It should be patched to use access(), as it already
> does for its built-in test. PTC.

AFAICS, this should only affect commands given with absolute paths,
see beginning of function exec.c::find_command().

I'll upload a patched ash in a minute.  Could you give it a test?

Corinna

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