X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <438B09A5.6080504@byu.net> Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 06:44:05 -0700 From: Eric Blake User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.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> <438B058B.7020601@byu.net> <438B065E.1000106@equate.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <438B065E.1000106@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 6:30 AM: > > The reason I mentioned it is that I'm told that the `` syntax is > deprecated (and has been for some time), at least in scripts, ergo it > makes sense to be moving to the newer one.. You're right though, it is a > lot easier to read and nest, and vastly easier to read it when nested.. Nope - POSIX has not deprecated ``. See http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/xcu_chap02.html#tag_02_06_03. And portable scripts, per the rules in the autoconf documentation, MUST use `` instead of $(). Based on the body of existing scripts that use ``, I doubt that POSIX will ever deprecate ``. - -- 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 iD8DBQFDiwml84KuGfSFAYARAkb+AJ0Sv6NwVQ7Lo02gNlLHfigVjTwlBwCfcB2k AHlzL06al9DPVq2F9+3jtL4= =JIju -----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/