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Date:	Mon, 08 May 2000 12:11:47 +0200
From:	Corinna Vinschen <corinna AT vinschen DOT de>
Organization:	Cygnus Solutions, a Red Hat Company
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To:	cygann <cygwin-announce AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Subject:	New ash in latest

I have uploaded new ash.tar.gz and ash-src.tar.gz files to
pub/cygwin/latest/ash on sourceware.cygnus.com. There are
some bugfixes and slightly changes in error output.

Especially the backquote bug found by Earnie Boyd is fixed.
Description:

The following occured in the previous versions of ash:

$ pwd
/home/user
$ echo `cd /`

$ pwd
/

This was due to a general bug in the backquote handling.
Internal commands in backquotes were started in the shells
own context instead of forking a subshell. Corresponding
to the bugfixes of the FreeBSD and Debian versions the
latest ash now forks a subshell for each backquote operator.


Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Developer
Cygnus Solutions, a Red Hat company

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