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Re: getopts missing with latest cygwin
On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 04:45:21PM -0600, Erik Nolte wrote:
>Getopts is not obsolete. The ash maintainer(s) seem to think that getopts
>is a job control feature and have disabled it. To get a working /bin/sh
>download the ash (and common) source, edit ash's builtins.def to remove "-j"
>from the getopts line, configure, compile, and copy new-sh.exe to
>/bin/sh.exe. Hopefully an ash maintainer will fix this.
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.
If you want more functionality, use bash.
FYI, getopts can also be a separate program although we don't supply it
with cygwin, currently.
cgf
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