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Re: 1.3.22: popen() fails without /bin/sh

So is it cygwin common-theme Friday?

On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 04:51:44PM +0100, mbuch@IFF572.IFF.KFA-JUELICH.DE wrote:
>i have the same popen() problem as described in
>http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-06/msg00567.html i.e.  my
>programm crashes when calling popen() on a system with minimal cygwin
>files (only cygwin1.dll and sh.exe in the windows path).  Does anyone
>know if there has been a solution or fix meanwhile ?

This is not a bug.  popen is *designed* to use /bin/sh.

cgf

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