bash status?

Christopher Faylor cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com
Tue Mar 1 13:21:00 GMT 2005


On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 08:01:32AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>After instructing someone to upgrade to the newer version of bash to
>fix the problem with pid reuse, I see that bash-2.05b-17 is still
>in test state.
>
>I seem to recall that Pierre may have had more patches for bash beyond
>what is in bash-2.05b-17, although I don't see any in the cygwin-apps
>archives.
>
>Also what's happening with bash 3.0?

Oops.  I didn't complete my thought.

The basic questions are:

1) Can bash-2.05b-17 be moved out of test?

2) Are there more patches in the wings?

3) What's the status of bash 3.0?

and now, a meta question:

4) Do we still have a bash maintainer?  My private email to Ronald bounced.

cgf



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