X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Matthew Woehlke Subject: Re: igncr vs text mode mounts, performance vs compatibility Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 10:39:18 -0500 Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: <1160655422743.antti.nospam.1605718.wGO_WJ9D1NlId3tB-z6Qig@luukku.com> <20061012123406.GA30908@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <452EA386.9010201@qualcomm.com> <20061012212011.GA8535@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <452EFDDB.1010301@qualcomm.com> <452F8719.9060300@cygwin.com> <4536BC88.3030003@qualcomm.com> <4536C922.4090807@qualcomm.com> <45376CBF.1030104@byu.net> <453EA9C1.8060402@byu.net> <45401C68.7080706@byu.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Thunderbird/1.5.0.7 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 In-Reply-To: <45401C68.7080706@byu.net> X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 Eric Blake wrote: > There is also the possibility of making bash turn igncr on by default, but > /bin/sh leaving it off, since only /bin/sh is specified by POSIX; but that > also gives me the willies thinking about people who will complain why > their script doesn't work when they change from #!/bin/bash to #!/bin/sh. With all due respect, /bin/sh is meant to be POSIX-conforming, and IMO should force igncr to be off. IOW such people deserve what they get. :-) The other side of this argument is 'why did you switch to #!/bin/sh?'. Chance are it was done to make a script "more portable", and as we of course know '\r' line endings are *not* portable. Not that I'm trying to convince you of anything, just trying to help you feel better if you decide to make this decision. :-) -- Matthew $ kill bill - kill: can't find process "bill" -- 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/