X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4AE613F4.4080108@cygwin.com> Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:26:12 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090320 Remi/2.0.0.21-1.fc8.remi Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.21 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: ash "gotcha", other 1.7 upgrade wrinles References: <4AE60FFF DOT 7080909 AT cs DOT umass DOT edu> In-Reply-To: <4AE60FFF.7080909@cs.umass.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 10/26/2009 05:09 PM, Eliot Moss wrote: > Dear cygwin team -- > > I went through the upgrade and have a couple of suggestions > for information to go out with the 1.7 release ... > > - In my experience, I have to rebase everything (Windows 7, like > Vista, shows this fork-failure behavior depending on where dll's > load into virtual memory); that's ok, though not fun I haven't found that on any of my Win7 installations but that probably reflects more my usage than yours. Still rebasing everything is probably overkill, though likely easier to do. > - But part of rebasing is to use ash (since it does not tie down > so many dlls and all, I believe) ... but ash is not there! > > - After a while, I found "dash", which appears to be "ash" under > a different name. I found the change gratuitous and surprising. > Users will need to be warned, I think, or the name changed back. It is not gratuitous. 'ash' is now 'dash' instead of 'bash'. Dash is a more standards compliant shell which is also faster. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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