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RE: B20 & bash 2.02.1(2) broken
- To: Austin David France <adf at mentor-systems dot com>, Matt Behrens <mbehrens at iserv dot net>
- Subject: RE: B20 & bash 2.02.1(2) broken
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 18:45:42 -0800 (PST)
- Cc: "Gnu-Win32 Mailing List \(E-mail\)" <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>, Jonathan Storey <joz at mentor-systems dot com>
- Reply-To: earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com
Perform your tests with the newest release of the cygwin1.dll found in
the coolview package on Sergey Okhapkin's site. See my site if you
need the URL.
---Austin David France <adf@mentor-systems.com> wrote:
>
> Yes. ^C breaks out of it though.
>
> I have since switched back to the b20 release of bash (2.01.1(2)) to
avoid
> having to have the b19 DLL loaded (I wonder if they will happily
co-exist)
> and the problem now seems intermittent. One invocation of bash, it
works
> OK, yet another invocation of bash it hangs.
>
> Humm... Just testing it now, and it's changed again. I have a
script called
> "vi" which is a wrapper for vim/vile (it parses the arguments for me).
>
> In /mentor I have a symbolic link bin -> /d/Mentor/bin (i.e.
/mentor/bin is
> a link to /d/Mentor/Bin).
>
> Here are some example of how it changes, these commands were all
performed
> as I was composing this mail in the same instance of bash.
>
> $ vi /tmp/oz
> /d/Mentor/Bin/: Can't open /d/Mentor/Bin/
> $ /d/Mentor/Bin/vi /tmp/oz
> (thrown into vim on /tmp/oz)
> $ export PATH=/bin:/mentor/bin:/usr/local/bin
> $ vi
> hangs, bash.exe eating CPU (believe this is the parent bash)
> ^C interrupts
> $ vi /tmp/oz
> (thrown into vim on /tmp/oz)
> $ cd /bin
> $ sh.exe
> do some stuff (echo etc) and exit
> $ vi /tmp/oz
> /mentor/bin/: /mentor/bin/: Permission Denied
> $ /mentor/bin/vi /tmp/oz
> (thrown into vim on /tmp/oz)
> $ export PATH=/bin:/d/Mentor/Bin:/usr/local/bin
> $ vi /tmp/oz
> (thrown into vim on /tmp/oz)
> $ vi /tmp/oz
> hangs, ^c interrupts
> $ export PATH=/bin:/mentor/bin:/usr/local/bin
> $ vi /tmp/oz
> /mentor/bin/: /mentor/bin/: Permission Denied
> $ /mentor/bin/vi /tmp/oz
> (thrown into vim on /tmp/oz)
>
> If I run my script using an aboslubte path, it reliably works.
>
> My ORIGIONAL path (when bash was loaded) did contain spaces.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com
[mailto:owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com]On
> > Behalf Of Matt Behrens
> > Sent: 06 November 1998 12:14
> > Cc: Gnu-Win32 Mailing List (E-mail)
> > Subject: Re: B20 & bash 2.02.1(2) broken
> >
> >
> > Hmm. Did it hang when it wouldn't execute those scripts? If so,
that
> > might well explain part of the problem with configure scripts not
> > working.
> >
> > Austin David France wrote:
> > >
> > > CYGWIN_NT-4.0 MENPC1 20.0 (0.1/1/1) 1998-10-29 15:33:43 i486
unknown
> > > BASH 2.02.1(2)-release
> > > NTW40 Y2KSP4
> > >
> > > I installed B20, and discovered a problem with the version of
> > bash shipped
> > > with b20.
> > >
> > > I can log in using cygnus.bat OK, however logins via inetd don't
work.
> > >
> > > Further investigation reveals a very strange problem. Bash
> > 2.02.1(2) won't
> > > execute a script whose name is less than 6 characters long.
> > >
> > > A colleagues is experiencing exactly the same problem, except
that bash
> > > won't execute a script whose name is less than 4 characters long.
> > >
> > > An interesting co-incidence is that I have 6 dos drive letters,
> > my colleague
> > > has only 4. I am sure this is just a weird co-incidence.
> > >
> > > I have replaced bash 2.02.1(2) with bash 2.02.1(1) and this
corrects the
> > > problem for both short script names and inetd (which was
presumably a
> > > related problem)
> > >
> > > Austin David France
> > > Mentor Systems plc
> > > mailto:adf@mentor-systems.com
> > >
> > >
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