X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 10:24:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Eric Blake cc: cygwin@cygwin.com, Dan_Wilks@intuit.com Subject: Re: Similar Bash 3.1.18 CR/LF Problem In-Reply-To: <451C8D98.4030302@byu.net> Message-ID: References: <657A9BE009D3504AAE29BD8E8C2DD61E01A5ABDB@SDGEXEVS02.corp.intuit.net> <451C8D98.4030302@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 Thu, 28 Sep 2006, Eric Blake wrote: > According to Wilks, Dan on 9/28/2006 3:59 PM: > > > > That was my guess. But since this was the cygwin installer run off > > of the cygwin site I thought I'd mention it, if for no other reason > > than tracking purposes. Maybe there's a problem with the installer / > > postinstall script when downgrading? Or perhaps that's intended > > behavior. It was just surprising. > > It's intended behavior; the postinstall script was not written with > downgrades in mind (I may rethink that for my next release; but, it won't > help you, because downgrading to 3.1-8 or earlier will not have this patch). > > > > > And... it didn't run again when re-upgrading just bash to the new > > (broken) version so we had to manually copy bash.exe to sh.exe. > > What makes you think the current version is broken? In my opinion, it > works just fine. However, your discovery that using Windows paths > instead of POSIX paths makes cygwin revert to binary file opens on text > mounts is rather interesting. I don't know if cygwin1.dll is at fault > for that strange behavior. It may be possible for me to patch bash to > always convert script names to POSIX before opening them, so that you > would get the right mount behavior, but I'm not looking forward to such > a hack. IIRC, Cygwin explicitly treats out-of-mount (Win32) paths as binary. 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/