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Re: [PATCH] Re: missing sh.exe in coreutils
- From: Brian Dessent <brian at dessent dot net>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 09:47:50 -0700
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: missing sh.exe in coreutils
- References: <7062534.1124094500717.JavaMail.adm-moff@moffice5.nsc.no> <43005647.59447F23@dessent.net> <43008668.6090004@byu.net>
Eric Blake wrote:
> Also, the following patch to setup.exe will solve the problem of bash
> upgrades. Since bash is guaranteed to exist if the user didn't unselect
> Base packages, but sh is not, we might as well always use /bin/bash as the
> shell to spawn postinstall scripts. Since it is used as "bash -c script",
> it will obey #! and use the actual shell desired; it is really only bash
> that needs this patch, since bash is the only one that must not be spawned
> by /bin/sh if it is to update /bin/sh.
Applied, thanks.
Brian