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Re: Postinstall failure: file not found
- From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <pierre dot humblet at ieee dot org>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 10:17:41 -0500
- Subject: Re: Postinstall failure: file not found
- References: <F84TDnJkHHFvhsl5AsK000144fd@hotmail.com> <3E8DA250.E8687FCA@ieee.org>
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 10:18:40AM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> OK, I've got it:
>
> /> sh -c sayhi
> hi
> /> sh -c /sayhi
> /sayhi: not found
>
> With strace I saw that sh uses stat (which won't show rxw rights
> in this case) and it behaves differently for absolute paths.
>
> Possible fixes:
> 1) cd to /etc/postinstall before running the scripts and use relative paths
> 2) Put my 2nd ntsec patch in setup (I have asked Rudiyanto to test it)
> 3) Run the postinstall scripts with CYGWIN=nontsec, for boostrap.
> Note that scripts that rely on ntsec (chmod or chown) will need to turn
> ntsec on.
> 4) patch sh.exe
> 5) ???
Use bash
/> bash -c /sayhi
hi
/> bash -c sayhi
hi
6) ???
Pierre
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