On May 11 13:21, Shun-ichi GOTO wrote: > Hi, developers > > Few days ago, I upgraded cygwin from 1.5.5 to 1.5.9 > and I found strange behavior of rsh. > > The problem is that rsh want to handle argument of executing command. > For example, > > $ rsh host ls -a > rsh: unknown option -- a > Try `rsh --help' for more information. > $ rsh host "ls -a" > ... > $ > > I tried testing with two version of rsh contained in interutils 1.3.25 > and 1.3.28. 1.3.25 doesn't have this problem, but 1.3.28 has.
rsh is using getopt_long for option processing. The old versions had it statically linked in while newer versions are using the getopt_long built into Cygwin. By default, Cygwin's getopt_long has argument permutation switched oon, so that explains it. For now, add the environment variable POSIXLY_CORRECT before calling rsh or, even simpler, quote the remote command: rsh server 'ls -a' The next version of inetutils will have argument permutation switched off for short option processing. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Co-Project Leader mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
