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Re: Confirm or deny.
- To: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>
- Subject: Re: Confirm or deny.
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 15:57:40 -0500
- CC: L Anderson <lowella at mvseac dot com>, cygwinList <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- References: <4.3.1.2.20010129153737.022a8c20@pop.ma.ultranet.com>
- Reply-To: Earnie Boyd <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
"Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" wrote:
>
> ... There is no code in Cygwin which
> checks the type of shell that's running. ...
>
Not totally true. In theory you should notice little difference.
However, Cygwin does know if it's executing from cmd.exe/command.com and
takes some measure to ensure that the format for spawns are correct for
that shell. You will also see differences wrt binary mode vs text mode
processing.
Earnie.
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