[CLN-list] Re: CLN vs weird mixture of Cygwin and MinGW

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Richard,

* Richard Haney wrote on Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 03:16:38AM CEST:
>
> I suppose the two different mount points "/usr/bin" and "/" as well as
> the resulting redundancy in the PATH directories may be a holdover from
> some old standard unix conventions.  

> Does anyone know what these conventions are all about and what might
> get broken by changing them?

For example, scripts starting with
  #! /bin/sh

or
  #! /usr/bin/env perl

or just about any other instance where absolute paths are used, I
presume.

Cheers,
Ralf