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Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 09:35:26 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: maintaining bash
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On Apr  7 22:20, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 05:10:14PM -0700, Hans Horn wrote:
> >Nevermind! Sorry, folks - I really didn't mean to upset anybody! Bye then!
> 
> No, no.  Please.  We are looking for a new bash maintainer.  We haven't
> heard from the maintainer in a while and private email to him bounces.
> 
> That is what prompted this message:
> 
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2005-03/msg00005.html
> 
> If you are willing to (actively) maintain bash it will be appreciated.
> There is one potential problem in that we may need to adapt Pierre's
> patch to prevent problems with pid reuse to 3.0 if it is released.

And AFAICS, the problem with paths starting with double slashes also
exists in 3.0.  The patch from 2.05b should be easily adaptable.


Corinna

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