> Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 16:09:39 -0400 > From: Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cygwin may try to be an island of POSIX in a sea of Windows but as > soon as you leave the island by running cmd.exe you have to expect > trouble. I don't have the POSIX specification handy but I'd be > surprised of cmd.exe qualified as a POSIX shell since, AFAICT, the > POSIX shell specification is based on the Bourne Shell which accepts > "-c" as a command-line argument.
If -c is the problem (which I agree it probably is), then it's not specific to cmd.exe; any program that doesn't grok -c as a shell does will behave that way. For example, cat or perl, even if they are Cygwin programs. > Above and beyond that point, however, it is not a goal of Cygwin to > operate flawlessly with cmd.exe. But Cygwin doesn't (AFAIK) do anything to deliberately defeat cmd.exe more than it does with any other program. _______________________________________________ Make-w32 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/make-w32
