Am 19.02.2019 um 00:36 schrieb Houder: > On Mon, 18 Feb 2019 13:15:02, Franz Fehringer wrote: > >> Am 18.02.2019 um 11:42 schrieb Houder: > [snip] > >>> Now show us the output of an antrun script, where the executable >>> is C:\Tools\Cygwin\bin\which and its argument: bash >> >> <exec executable="C:\Tools\Cygwin\bin\which" failonerror="true"> >> <arg line="bash" /> >> </exec> >> <exec executable="bash" failonerror="true"> >> <arg line="-c src/main/resources/build" /> >> </exec> >> >> gives >> >> [exec] /usr/bin/bash >> [exec] W i n d o w s S u b s y s t e m f o r L i n u x h a s n >> o i n s t a l l e d d i s t r i b u ti o n s . >> [exec] D i s t r i b u t i o n s c a n b e i n s t a l l e d >> b y v i s i t i n g t h e M i c r o s o f t S t o r e : >> [exec] h t t p s : / / a k a . m s / w s l s t o r e >> >> It is as if C:\Windows\System32 were hardcoded somewhere >> The ant exec documentation says >> "The <exec> task delegates to Runtime.exec which in turn apparently >> calls ::CreateProcess. It is the latter Win32 function that defines the >> exact semantics of the call. " > > Erm, thinking this over ... you may be on the right track ... > > After invoking the Windows executable (JVM or whatever) from Cygwin, "bash" > is started using CreateProcess() > > > https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/api/processthreadsapi/nf-processthreadsapi-createprocessa > > Before it searches PATH, CreateProcess checks "the 32-bit Windows system > directory" for the presence of "bash.exe". > > And we know that bash.exe from WSL is present in C:\Windows\System32. That > does explain why the output of bash from WSL is shown, does it not? > (reporting that a distribution is still to be installed). > > The above also explains why renaming bash from WSL to "wslbash.exe" forces > CreateProcess() to search for the presence of bash.exe down the PATH. > > Henri > >
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