bash: cat << ... fails with cat: -: Permission denied

[Lionel B <lionelb at crapmail dot com>]

Greetings,

This problem appears to have surfaced in a previous thread on this list (see http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-07/msg01101.html) but no satisfactory resolution was offered then.

The problem arises with bash but not with sh on our cygwin installation:

$ bash -c "cat << EOF"
cat: -: Permission denied

yet:

$ sh -c "cat << EOF"

succeeds. This causes problems particularly insofar as many configure scripts insist on using bash.

Please find attached cygcheck output for our cygwin installation.

Any help appreciated,
Lionel B


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