X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <438B058B.7020601@byu.net> Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 06:26:35 -0700 From: Eric Blake User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com CC: jeyadev3@yahoo.com Subject: Re: Norton Internet Security and Cygwin: What settings for NIS? References: <20051127150708.87610.qmail@web35709.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <438AD84E.3000508@equate.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <438AD84E.3000508@equate.dyndns.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Chris Taylor on 11/28/2005 3:13 AM: > > I should point out that hostname is called in /etc/profile for bash as > well ( HOSTNAME=`hostname` <-- should this be being changed to > HOSTNAME=$(hostname) at some point soon?) There is no difference in this case (both command substitution spellings are required by POSIX), and `hostname` is more portable to older shells than $(hostname). However, since all bourne-compatible shells distributed with cygwin support the newer syntax, and the newer syntax is more readable, as well as easier to nest, it wouldn't hurt if base-files were updated to use $() instead of ``. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDiwWL84KuGfSFAYARAo1BAJwLm55Pvqs6qEpNqTHue6aTkVbMTQCdGMo5 nnmsNgwj3+WrdKg1Y9IBFjQ= =Q96s -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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/