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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 13:52:50 +1100
From: Luke Kendall <luke@research.canon.com.au>
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Subject: Shell bug - no args for sourced scripts
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If you write a script that is designed to set up variables,
for sourcing in another shell, Cygwin B20.1 sh under NT4.0 ignores
any parameters passed.

This differs from Korn shells and bash version 2.01 under Solaris.

E.g. the script "sourcing":

#!/bin/sh
echo "Args are: $@"
ARGS="$@" export ARGS

When run under Cygnus shell like so:

	. ./sourcing test

demonstrates that the arguments are not seen in the sourced
shell script.

	Args are: 

Likewise, $# is 0.

luke

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