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Re: Losing track of processes?
- From: Brian Dessent <brian at dessent dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 15:02:50 -0700
- Subject: Re: Losing track of processes?
- Organization: My own little world...
- References: <Pine.CYG.4.58.0504141332210.2032@Crunch.bcgssbd.sciatl.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
"Shaffer, Kenneth" wrote:
> > If you're not using the -17 (test) version of bash, try that.
>
> Wow! Much better! My scripts are still churning after 4 hours. When will
> this be part of an offical cygwin drop?
Well, it's already "official" in that it's been on all the cygwin
mirrors for quite some time. But it's marked as a test version so you
don't get it by default. I think the initial reason was that it
contained patches that had not been fully tested yet and with a package
like bash you don't want to release untested code until you're sure it's
stable.
However, that was in November, so it's been a good 5 months or so in
that state. Another issue here is that the current bash maintainer is
very busy and has limited access to a Windows machine. There has been
talk of another person volunteering to step in and get version 3
packaged and released, but so far nothing has come of it.
Brian
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