X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:35:17 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 'read -p' in ash Message-ID: <20080116103517.GB19381@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <1ff86f510801150735q417dd197s2f9b7ea877896f5@mail.gmail.com> <478D5CEB.4080204@byu.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <478D5CEB.4080204@byu.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: 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 Jan 15 18:24, Eric Blake wrote: > According to Jerry D. Hedden on 1/15/2008 8:35 AM: > | According to its man page, 'ash' supports the '-p' option on 'read'. > | > | Is this a bug, or am I doing something wrong? > > Cygwin's ash is notoriously out-of-date and non-POSIX compliant. For It's actually notoriously unmaintained and I am the unmaintainer. > almost all cases, you are probably better off using bash (the exception is > when running rebaseall, to affect even the libraries used by bash). That's the only useful situation for using ash. In all other cases, bash is sh. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/