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Re: Proposal for new cygwin.bat which is independent from install directory
Greetings, cyg Simple!
>>> On 8/27/2016 1:44 PM, Andrey Repin wrote:
>>>> Greetings, Christian Franke!
>>>>
>>>>> Andrey Repin wrote:
>>>>>>> Hmm... therefore it is also better to change the last line to:
>>>>>>> .\bash --login -i
>>>>>> "%~dp0bin\bash.exe" --login -i
>>>>
>>>>> Changing the directory before bash is run is a security measure because
>>>>> the current directory may be in DLL search path.
>>>>
>>>> And?
>>>>
>>>>> I guess this is one reason why the cygwin.bat file created by setup.exe also
>>>>> does this.
>>>>
>>>> I'm starting an application by its full path.
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>> So... It doesn't make it any more correct than Christian's method which
>>> is what I prefer. IIRC older versions of Windows required the change
>>> directory to execute Cygwin properly.
>>
>> How much "older"? Win'95? It is no longer supported.
>>
> It doesn't matter how old; it matters as a reason for the way it was
> written in the first place. It gives one pause as to making such a
> change since it might not work in all cases where the change directory does.
I did made that pause. And I considered OS without cmd.exe not worth
consideration.
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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Tuesday, August 30, 2016 23:40:08
Sorry for my terrible english...
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