Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <3B37D303.684A66CC@agilent.com> Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 17:10:43 -0700 From: Earl Chew Organization: Agilent Technologies X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Randall R Schulz Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Shell avoidance in make-3.79.1-3 References: <3B37B58B.F87EA366@agilent.com> <3B37B58B.F87EA366@agilent.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20010625161345.0257c1d8@pop3.cris.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20010625170322.026ebc10@pop3.cris.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Randall R Schulz wrote: > That leaves only the question: Why are you asking when you know > already? The makefile: all: ; ps tells me: bash-2.05$ make -f ../foo.mk ps PID PPID PGID WINPID TTY UID STIME COMMAND 317 1 317 317 -1 500 14:59:36 /bin/bash 461 317 461 549 -1 500 14:59:41 /usr/bin/make 591 461 461 224 -1 500 14:59:41 /bin/sh 662 591 461 585 -1 500 14:59:41 /usr/bin/ps that make is invoking /bin/sh in order to invoke /usr/bin/ps. Why isn't make invoking /usr/bin/ps directly? Earl -- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------+ > Earl Chew http://www.agilent.com | > Agilent Technologies mailto:earl_chew@agilent.com | > Advanced Networks Division Tel: +1 604 454 3411 | > 2500-4710 Kingsway Fax: +1 604 454 3401 | > Burnaby BC V5H 4M2 Canada | > ---------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple