Earnie Boyd wrote: > --- Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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? Yes. Login conditions for ash means reading /etc/profile and ./.profile. Note that directory ".". ash doesn't change to $HOME by itself so it has to be done by the parent process or in /etc/profile. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
