Proposed patch to system.XWinrc

Andy Koppe andy.koppe@gmail.com
Tue Jun 23 20:19:00 GMT 2009


2009/6/23 Jon TURNEY:
> Always assuming that /bin/bash exists, or that /bin/sh is bash is probably
> bad style for portability across unicies.
>
> However, in this specific case, it's probably ok.

You never know. If posix_spawn() ever gets implemented in Cygwin to
avoid the slowness of fork(), /bin/sh might well change to the first
shell that supports it.

Andy

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