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Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 08:18:47 -0700 (PDT)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject: Ash feature causing defect in configure scripts.
To: cygwin users <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
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I've found that sh.exe has doesn't execute the following in a subshell and thus
affects the parent.  This has an affect on some shell scripts that expect that
the command doesn't affect the parent and IMO I don't think it should either.

Feature/defect:

`cd /` will actually change the directory of the current process when what is
intended is to check the noise returning from the subprocess.

Cheers,

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   Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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