X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 18:30:55 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Changed handling of "!" in /bin/sh? Message-ID: <20070117233055.GA21694@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20070117015312 DOT 43811842EF AT pessard DOT research DOT canon DOT com DOT au> <45AD9572 DOT 8000905 AT byu DOT net> <31DDB7BE4BF41D4888D41709C476B657041696A9 AT NIHCESMLBX5 DOT nih DOT gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <31DDB7BE4BF41D4888D41709C476B657041696A9@NIHCESMLBX5.nih.gov> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 06:14:27PM -0500, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: >Eric Blake wrote on Tuesday, January 16, 2007 10:18 PM: >> According to Luke Kendall on 1/16/2007 6:53 PM: >>> >>> Or, copy /bin/ash.exe to replace /bin/sh.exe. >> >> Not recommended. The reason cygwin moved to bash as >> /bin/sh was to avoid ash bugs. > >I thought that it was more to avoid all the complaints >that sh did not behave like bash, which is what many >people expected. You're right that was also a reason. cgf -- 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/