X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <450E0880.9000401@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 10:46:24 +0800 From: Carlo Florendo User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: bash-3.1-7　BUG References: <091320060438.11140.45078B490008FD8600002B8422007610640A050E040D0C079D0A@comcast.net> <20060913052510.GB1256@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <45089854.8010705@scytek.de> <45089B13.7080105@acm.org> <4508A29A.30308@cygwin.com> In-Reply-To: <4508A29A.30308@cygwin.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > > I think this is getting a little off-track. Another option just means > another > area for people who don't understand what's going on to trip and fall > and then > come and bug the list as a result. IMO, there's already such an > option, even > without changing bash. It's called 'd2u'. Let's not over-think and > over-do > things here. There's pain involved in that too. I'm not convinced > that it's > worth the pain to all for the benefit of a few. Of course, I firmly > believe > that what can and will be done here is Eric's call. He's the one that > will be > maintaining it. > You've got the keyverb: overdo We've already got d2u. There is a point in making bash scripts work with CRLF endings but at the expense of a slower and a little bit larger bash, I think. (If I'm wrong here, I'm sorry, I haven't seen bash's code.) d2u is much simpler. For the sake of simplicity and elegance, let's go d2u. Best Regards, Carlo -- Carlo Florendo Network Administrator Astra Philippines Inc. (www.astra.ph) Member of the Astra Group (www.astra.co.jp) -- 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/