Re: Shell scripts?

["Aubrey McAuley" <aubrey at eden dot com>]

Scott,

Is there any chance you could share those modifications with the 
folks on this list? We're trying to solve a nasty problem with 
spawning shell processes and your fix could be a great help to us. 
Thanks in advance for your help.

On 27 Jan 97 at 16:14, Scott Kempf <scottk@utig.ig.utexas.edu> 
wrote, concerning: Re: Shell scripts?:

> It is possible that you have more than one version of bash.
> Make sure that all your bash.exe and sh.exe are the same
> file length.  Fork sometimes grabs the wrong executable.
> 
> #!/usr/local/bin/perl.exe
> 
> Will not work.  Nor will "#!/bin/sh -x".
> 
> I've made a patch to winsup/spawn.cc that seems to fix this.
> I haven't sent it out yet, since I wanted to make sure it
> was right.  It seems that every version of UNIX I've tested
> rewrites the arguments a little differently, so I just did
> my own style.
> 
> Can anyone tell me where I might find POSIX or X/OPEN system
> standards on the web?
> 
> 			    Scott
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