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RE: why not use root as root?
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Subject: RE: why not use root as root?
- From: Reini Urban <rurban at sbox dot tu-graz dot ac dot at>
- Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 04:52:01 +0200
- Organization: http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at
>From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
>Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 13:12:11 +1100
>
>It does work. But there _may_ be gotchas. There _are_ gotchas with other
>products.
>What benefits does encouraging this sort of install bring?
I ran cygwin-b20 successfully for some years as root
in e:/usr/bin/;e:/usr/local/bin/; ...
That way I needed only one PATH setting, which was converted automatically
in the bash to /usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
But most importantly I could run she-bang programs from cmd.exe or
any msvc spawn plus from any cygwin app unchanged.
This was a must for apache cgi's.
now I must use #! /usr/bin/perl and #! /e/cygwin/usr/bin/perl
where apache is built with msvc.
Cannot remember other benefits now exactly, but there were some others
with msvc compiled gnu apps. xemacs and emacs certainly.
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Reini Urban
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