Changed handling of "!" in /bin/sh?
Eric Blake
ebb9@byu.net
Thu Jan 18 02:39:00 GMT 2007
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According to Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] on 1/17/2007 4:14 PM:
>> Not recommended. The reason cygwin moved to bash as
>> /bin/sh was to avoid ash bugs.
>
> I thought that it was more to avoid all the complaints
> that sh did not behave like bash, which is what many
> people expected.
And that is different from an ash bug, how? :)
- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
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