Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 10:36:32 -0400 From: Chet Ramey To: cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Subject: Re: getopts missing with latest cygwin Reply-To: chet AT po DOT CWRU DOT Edu Message-ID: <1001010143632.AA82047.SM@nike.ins.cwru.edu> Read-Receipt-To: chet AT po DOT CWRU DOT Edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-In-Reply-To: Message from cgf AT cygnus DOT com of Mon, 9 Oct 2000 18:57:24 -0400 (id <20001009185724 DOT B9752 AT cygnus DOT com>) > The "ash maintainer" is either me or Corinna. FWIW, I don't plan on > changing this. I want ash to be small and fast when running configure > scripts. I've stripped ash down to support only the minimal set of > functionality found in older versions of UNIX. I use the /bin/sh on > Digital UNIX 3.2 as a reference. You might as well use the V7 sh man page as your reference, since the version you're using provides little more. Does the cygwin sh support shell functions? (Those weren't in v7.) > FYI, getopts can also be a separate program although we don't supply it > with cygwin, currently. No, it can't. A separate program cannot propagate the changes to $OPTIND and $OPTARG back to the parent shell. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ( ``Discere est Dolere'' -- chet) Chet Ramey, CWRU chet AT po DOT CWRU DOT Edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/ -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com