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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.


-- 
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Monday, August 29, 2016 16:57:44

Sorry for my terrible english...


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