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RE: cygpath hangings: A fix - bash patch enclosed -- bash maintainer please note!
- From: "Norman Vine" <nhv at cape dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 04:54:17 -0400
- Subject: RE: cygpath hangings: A fix - bash patch enclosed -- bash maintainer please note!
- Reply-to: <nhv at cape dot com>
Christopher Faylor writes:
> >
> I've put a patched version of bash up at:
>
> ftp://sourceware.org/pub/cygwin/tmp/bash.exe
>
> if anyone wants to try this. It would be good to confirm or deny
> that this fixes the problem for everyone.
>
> Btw, maybe this has already been mentioned, but here is a simple
> test script that demonstrates the problem when run from the console:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> exec 0<&-
> A=$(cygpath -A -P)
> echo $A
>
> Save it as "hang" and run it as "bash hang" and it should hang nicely
> with an unpatched bash.
Your patched 'bash' runs the above script fine here,
whereas the distributed one hangs
Note this is with a fairly recent locally built DLL
HTH
Norman
Cygwin DLL version info:
DLL version: 1.5.6
DLL epoch: 19
DLL bad signal mask: 19005
DLL old termios: 5
DLL malloc env: 28
API major: 0
API minor: 94
Shared data: 3
DLL identifier: cygwin1
Mount registry: 2
Cygnus registry name: Cygnus Solutions
Cygwin registry name: Cygwin
Program options name: Program Options
Cygwin mount registry name: mounts v2
Cygdrive flags: cygdrive flags
Cygdrive prefix: cygdrive prefix
Cygdrive default prefix:
Build date: Thu Oct 2 06:59:48 EDT 2003
Shared id: cygwin1S3-2003-10-02 06:59
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