Turns out the problem on my end is how I was trying to invoke the shell, using a full path in a shortcut. When I put it in a batch file and changed it to the format used in cygwin.bat, it works. So the process is to copy sh.exe to -sh.exe and then start it with a batch file as follows: @echo off rem use drive letter where Cygwin is installed. c: cd \cygwin\bin -sh If doing this, be sure /etc/profile (and any other profiles you set up) do not contain any bash'isms or that the bash stuff is isolated. I've found that a good way to test (for bash or ksh) is to do a test of the RANDOM variable. In standard (sh) shells it will be empty. Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > 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] -- Bob McGowan Staff Software Quality Engineer VERITAS Software [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
