On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 09:16:41AM +0100, Blair Sutton wrote: >On further investigation, it appears powershell does alias "-c" for >"-command" hence no changes would be required for cron to support it. >However, the change would still be useful for other shells or perhaps >interpreters like Perl. > >On Pierre's offered solution: I now do recall how exec works and it is >correct that it replaces the current process - although a there will >be some overhead. However, that begs the question why cron ever >supported the SHELL parameter in the first place; if Mr Vixie wanted >everyone to write a wrapper script using his preferred shell.
Mr. Vixie rightly assumed that cron was running in a UNIX-like environment where shells take the "-c" option. Ditto the authors of "make", "vim", and other packages which use the SHELL environment variable. Can we please put this to rest now? cgf -- 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/
