X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4CD086A3.20107@bopp.net> Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 16:46:11 -0500 From: Jeremy Bopp User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100915 Thunderbird/3.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [patch 2/8] Document EXECIGNORE in Cygwin readme References: <20101102204855.153395100@gmail.com> <20101102205006.866395100@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20101102205006.866395100@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 11/2/2010 3:48 PM, dan.colascione@gmail.com wrote: > Index: bash-3.2/CYGWIN-PATCHES/bash.README > =================================================================== > --- bash-3.2.orig/CYGWIN-PATCHES/bash.README > +++ bash-3.2/CYGWIN-PATCHES/bash.README > @@ -55,7 +55,14 @@ is on a binary mount with igncr disabled > would be text mounts with igncr disabled and no \r in the underlying file. > Next would be binary mounts with igncr enabled. And the slowest that bash > will operate is on text mounts with igncr enabled. > -8. If you don't like how bash behaves, then propose a patch, rather than > +8. This version of bash has a new special variable EXECIGNORE. It is a > +colon-separated list of extended glob patterns. If a file's full path > +matches one of these, it is no considered executable for the purposes ^^ That should be "not" instead of "no". > +of completion and PATH searching. The `test', `[', and `[[' builtins > +are not affected. Use this variable to prevent non-executables > +uselessly appearing in completion lists; EXECIGNORE=*.dll is quite > +useful. > +9. If you don't like how bash behaves, then propose a patch, rather than > proposing idle ideas. This turn of events has already been talked to > death on the mailing lists by people with many ideas, but few patches. -Jeremy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple