On 8/29/2016 9:58 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: > 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. >
It doesn't matter how old; it matters as a reason for the way it was written in the first place. It gives one pause as to making such a change since it might not work in all cases where the change directory does. -- 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
