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. -- cyg Simple -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
