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On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 11:34:56PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: >Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com> writes: >>Except that it can't be made to work correctly due to a bash bug. > >Which Bash bug is that? Eric Blake alluded to it here: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2005-05/msg00254.html Bash is the most important program for which 'that chdir("//") is currently no different from chdir("/")'. >Bash bugs can be fixed. Our track record for getting cygwin fixes into bash has been mixed. I believe that someone has tried to get this fixed previously, along with an even more serious problem with bash getting confused by quick pid reuse but I believe that both problem still exist in bash 3.0. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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