Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/03/25/12:20:09
On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 05:14:49PM +0000, Eric Blake wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 04:37:26PM +0000, Eric Blake wrote:
>> I'm not sure I understand the removal of "``" for "portability" in the
>> same patch which changes
>>
>> A=foo
>> export A
>>
>> to
>> export A=foo
>
>Yes, export A=foo is nonportable (/bin/sh, which is ash, does not like
>it, even though POSIX requires it), but since that line is inside the
>case that is doing shell-specific settings of PS1, it is guaranteed to
>only be executed by bash, which handles it. By the way, is there a
>newer version of ash that is more POSIX-compliant? The current version
>is more than a year old.
ash is not supposed to be POSIX compliant.
>>Personally, I wish we wouldn't play any prompt games in the system
>>profiles. I'd rather just either just have the standard prompt that
>>the shell uses or my own customized version rather than assuming that
>>we all know what the cygwin users want for a prompt.
>
>True enough - how about having /etc/default/etc/profile always set
>PS1="$ ", then have /etc/profile/etc/skel/.bash_profile (and friends)
>set the colorized version that cygwin users have always had as their
>default.
That sounds closer to right to me, but I'd be happy with the stuff in
/etc/profile not playing any games with the prompt. In fact, why should
/etc/default/etc/profile set the prompt to anything?
cgf
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