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On 8/29/2016 9:58 AM, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, cyg Simple!
> 
> 
> 
>> On 8/27/2016 1:44 PM, Andrey Repin wrote:
>>> Greetings, Christian Franke!
>>>
>>>> Andrey Repin wrote:
>>>>>> Hmm... therefore it is also better to change the last line to:
>>>>>>     .\bash --login -i
>>>>> "%~dp0bin\bash.exe" --login -i
>>>
>>>> Changing the directory before bash is run is a security measure because 
>>>> the current directory may be in DLL search path.
>>>
>>> And?
>>>
>>>> I guess this is one reason why the cygwin.bat file created by setup.exe also
>>>> does this.
>>>
>>> I'm starting an application by its full path.
>>>
>>>
> 
>> So...  It doesn't make it any more correct than Christian's method which
>> is what I prefer.  IIRC older versions of Windows required the change
>> directory to execute Cygwin properly.
> 
> How much "older"? Win'95? It is no longer supported.
> 

It doesn't matter how old; it matters as a reason for the way it was
written in the first place.  It gives one pause as to making such a
change since it might not work in all cases where the change directory does.

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