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Re: sh
- To: cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com
- Subject: Re: sh
- From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen at redhat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 22:24:40 +0200
- References: <20001018172321.12355.qmail@web115.yahoomail.com>
- Reply-To: cygwin <cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com>
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.
Corinna
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