Re: Proposal for new cygwin.bat which is independent from install directory

[cyg Simple <cygsimple at gmail dot com>]

On 8/27/2016 1:44 PM, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Christian Franke!
> 
>> Andrey Repin wrote:
>>>> Hmm... therefore it is also better to change the last line to:
>>>>     .\bash --login -i
>>> "%~dp0bin\bash.exe" --login -i
> 
>> Changing the directory before bash is run is a security measure because 
>> the current directory may be in DLL search path.
> 
> And?
> 
>> I guess this is one reason why the cygwin.bat file created by setup.exe also
>> does this.
> 
> I'm starting an application by its full path.
> 
> 

So...  It doesn't make it any more correct than Christian's method which
is what I prefer.  IIRC older versions of Windows required the change
directory to execute Cygwin properly.

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