I applaud any effort to speed up bash but 3.1.18 immediately broke enough stuff that I do not believe we will proceed to use it in its present form.
On my bash wish list I would include changing clear (ctrl-l) so that it clears the entire buffer and not just the lines that are currently visible. I have the windows code to do this if any one wants to proceed. I realize that the behavior is the same as it is in RedHat Linux where it produces the same inconveniences. Thus adopting this change would be a departure from other platforms. Just a thought. Roger Wells, P.E. SAIC 221 Third St Newport, RI 02840 401-847-4210 (voice) 401-849-1585 (fax) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Blake Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 7:06 AM To: cygwin-announce@cygwin.com Subject: Updated [experimental]: bash-3.1-8 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 A new release of bash, 3.1-8, is available for experimental use. NEWS: ===== This version is similar to the experimental 3.1-7, except that it fixes the regression of scripts with \r\n line endings on text mounts. By removing several outdated #ifdefs that were once necessary in bash for older versions of cygwin, bash is now faster and more like Linux when operating on binary mounts. In particular, if your script uses \n line endings, bash will read a buffer at a time instead of a byte a time, for much less disk traffic. A script on a binary mount that uses \r\n line endings will probably encounter syntax errors or odd variable assignments, because the \r is treated literally. If this happens to you, use d2u to fix the line endings, or change your script to live in a text mount point. A script that resides on a text mount can have either line ending (even inconsistently mixed), but be aware that text mount points are slower, due to \r\n filtering. Because of this change in behavior from the current 3.1-6 for scripts in binary mounts, I am marking this version experimental for a while until I can gauge from mailing list traffic that it is safe to promote to current. Remember, you must not have any bash or /bin/sh instances running when you upgrade the bash package. This release will work with cygwin-1.5.21-1 or later. DESCRIPTION: ============ Bash is an sh-compatible shell that incorporates useful features from the Korn shell (ksh) and C shell (csh). It is intended to conform to the IEEE POSIX P1003.2/ISO 9945.2 Shell and Tools standard. It offers functional improvements over sh for both programming and interactive use. In addition, most sh scripts can be run by Bash without modification. As of the bash 3.0 series, cygwin /bin/sh defaults to bash, not ash, similar to Linux distributions. UPDATE: ======= To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Save it and run setup, answer the questions and pick up 'bash' in the 'Base' category (it should already be selected). Since this is an experimental release, you will have to use the 'Exp' radio button. DOWNLOAD: ========= Note that downloads from sources.redhat.com (aka cygwin.com) aren't allowed due to bandwidth limitations. This means that you will need to find a mirror which has this update, please choose the one nearest to you: http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html QUESTIONS: ========== If you want to make a point or ask a question the Cygwin mailing list is the appropriate place. - -- Eric Blake volunteer cygwin bash maintainer CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO: ================================= To unsubscribe to the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sources.redhat.com/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFCTd784KuGfSFAYARAg73AJ9kx3F0KZMMMVf2Mswap9EdbbQhwACfQ04W mpXuv1i2LBxilPEJt5NmTts= =D66q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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/
