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Re: sh
- To: cygwin <cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Subject: Re: sh
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 13:52:31 -0700 (PDT)
--- Corinna Vinschen <vinschen@redhat.com> wrote:
> Earnie Boyd wrote:
> >
> > --- Bob McGowan <rmcgowan@veritas.com> wrote:
> > > Using a soft link doesn't work from within a shortcut or bat file. So I
> need
> > > (I think) to make a complete copy of of sh.exe to '-sh', but without the
> > > .exe, the Windows
> > > environment won't execute it.
> > >
> > > Any other ideas? I'm fresh out.(
> > >
> >
> > Get the ash source and fix it so that your copy to -sh.exe works.
>
> I don't understand the problem here. ash only checks for the first
> character of argv[0] being a '-' character to read the profiles.
> I copied sh.exe to -sh.exe as well to run ash as login shell on a
> NT 3.51 system on which bash crashed for some reason.
>
Ok. I was basing my opinions on what Bob stated he experienced and previous
versions of other shells that check for sh in argv[0]. Are you saying that
copying sh.exe to -sh.exe and then executing -sh works to trigger login
conditions in ash?
Cheers,
=====
Earnie Boyd
mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
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