> But Cygwin's should work fine, and if it means saving a bazillion 1-byte > syscalls then I think bash should be patched to remove this sillyness > ASAP.
I get the hint! Look for a new release of bash in the near future; and once I get the cygport build going, I will also try to get the bash-3.2 alpha up as well. -- Eric Blake volunteer cygwin bash maintainer -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/