On 08/02/2010 02:09 PM, JOHNER Jean 066030 wrote: > Hello, > > The default Cygwin.bat uses "bash --login -I" while the default rxvt-native > shortcut uses "bash --login".
-i (I assume you meant little i here) forces an interactive shell, even if the shell's default actions would otherwise select non-interactive. But rxvt-native and cygwin.bat are typically called in environments where stdin and stderr are terminals, at which point the default action is interactive even without -i. > If not, why keep -i in Cygwin.bat? To make it clear at a glance that the shell will be interactive, without making you go read 'man bash' to find out what other conditions cause an interactive shell and whether cygwin.bat meets those other conditions. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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