X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 11:25:03 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Eric Blake cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: curses.h (Attn: bash and setup maintainers) In-Reply-To: <43D63084.7030302@byu.net> Message-ID: References: <20060120172639.GA15196@brasko.net> <20060121142951.GA20108@brasko.net> <43D24CD0.5000508@byu.net> <20060121151547.GD32082@brasko.net> <43D27E86.3010006@byu.net> <20060121201329.GA9039@brasko.net> <20060123145013.GA9308@brasko.net> <20060123161412.GB9308@brasko.net> <43D63084.7030302@byu.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Eric Blake wrote: > According to Igor Peshansky on 1/23/2006 9:34 AM: > > > > Most of the messages are diagnostics to track script progress. The only > > exceptions are the lines below: > > > > ./00bash.sh.done: line 12: ./01bash.bat: No such file or directory > > cp: cannot stat `./01bash.bat.t': No such file or directory > > rm: cannot remove `./01bash.bat.t': No such file or directory > > > > The first set is from 00bash.sh (it should probably have a test for the > > existence the .bat file). Also, in-place edits should work just fine > > (using 'sed -i -e "/^echo/d; s,REM BASHPATH,$bashpath," 01bash.bat'). > > Duly noted; bash-3.1-2 will improve on this situation One quick note: I chanced upon my comment from 2 years ago regarding a bug in sed that makes it go into an infinite loop with "-i" if /tmp is not writable. Don't know if it still applies, but this is something to watch out for. A workaround is to invoke sed with TMP (or TMPDIR) set to a known-writable directory (e.g., "/etc/postinstall" or "."). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- 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/