Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 10:09:45 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Bug in bash 2.03's handling of compound commands?
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On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Richard Dawe wrote:
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In-reply-to: <397C9BA7 DOT 6047BE4F AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk> (message from Richard
	Dawe on Mon, 24 Jul 2000 20:40:23 +0100)
Subject: Re: Bug in bash 2.03's handling of compound commands?
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> Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 20:40:23 +0100
> From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
>
> There is still a bug in the DJGPP port of bash 1.14.7

This is a known bug in the port of Bash 1.14.7: parenthesized commands
didn't work correctly.  That feature is tricky to emulate because the
original code simply fork()'s, to have the subshell start with the
same state (variables, aliases, etc.) as the parent.  DJGPP doesn't
have a working `fork', so making it work is not easy.