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Re: Why can't run.exe execute a shebang script directly?
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>
- To: John Wiersba <jrw32982 at yahoo dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 17:37:15 +0400
- Subject: Re: Why can't run.exe execute a shebang script directly?
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Greetings, John Wiersba!
> I would have thought cygwin1.dll contains the code necessary to do this,
> like the linux kernel does. Can it be added to the dll or does it have to
> be added to each executable individually, such as bash.exe, run.exe, etc.?
> bash$ /bin/run ./try
> run FATAL: Could not start D:\ftp\try
All right except the fact that run.exe is designed to start Windows
applications (or associations). It just doesn't try the cygwin magic on the
files it tries to start. I suggest /bin/env instead.
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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 24.10.2014, <17:35>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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