Re: ash "gotcha", other 1.7 upgrade wrinles

["Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh at cygwin dot com>]

On 10/26/2009 05:09 PM, Eliot Moss wrote:
> Dear cygwin team --
>
> I went through the upgrade and have a couple of suggestions
> for information to go out with the 1.7 release ...
>
> - In my experience, I have to rebase everything (Windows 7, like
> Vista, shows this fork-failure behavior depending on where dll's
> load into virtual memory); that's ok, though not fun

I haven't found that on any of my Win7 installations but that probably
reflects more my usage than yours.  Still rebasing everything is
probably overkill, though likely easier to do.

> - But part of rebasing is to use ash (since it does not tie down
> so many dlls and all, I believe) ... but ash is not there!
>
> - After a while, I found "dash", which appears to be "ash" under
> a different name. I found the change gratuitous and surprising.
> Users will need to be warned, I think, or the name changed back.

It is not gratuitous.  'ash' is now 'dash' instead of 'bash'.  Dash is a
more standards compliant shell which is also faster.

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A: Yes.
> Q: Are you sure?
>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
>>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?

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