On Jun 22 16:09, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jun 22 13:58, Eric Blake wrote: > > 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). > > There can be only *.bat and *.sh files in /etc/postinstall and > /etc/preremove. *.bat files are started via `cmd /c file' and *.sh > files are started via `bash --norc --noprofile -c file'. So we sort of > require a script to be a sh/bash script anyway right now. Admittedly, I > did not actually *look* into all postinstall/preremove scripts in the > distro.
I just checked the entire 1.7 distro and here's the result: We have not a single package left which uses a .bat file in postinstall or in preremove. That's great, IMHO. And, AFAICS, all of the *.sh fiels are actually some variation of sh/ash/bash script. So I assume it's safe to remove the -c from setup's script starter method. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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
