Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin <at> cygwin.com> writes: > > Why don't we just remove the "-c" and get setup.exe to use the simple "bash > > <filename>" syntax meaning "treat <filename> as a text file, open it and pipe > > it to stdin"? > > I already suggested this on the cygwin-developers ML back in May (*) > but it was not discussed overly enthusiastic (**) (***).
Indeed - changing things to be 'bash script' instead of the current 'bash -c script' would make the use of alternative interpreters harder. But it does not make it impossible; you can always do: #!/bin/sh /bin/awk <<\EOF ... EOF instead of #!/bin/awk ... For that matter, are there any postinstall scripts currently relying on a different interpreter? If not, then I'm in favor of the idea of changing setup.exe to be immune to the execute bit on postinstall scripts, at the expense of making postinstall scripts locked into bash (at least, as the initial interpreter). -- Eric Blake -- 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
