On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 06:14:27PM -0500, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] 
wrote:
>Eric Blake wrote on Tuesday, January 16, 2007 10:18 PM:
>> According to Luke Kendall on 1/16/2007 6:53 PM:
>>> 
>>> Or, copy /bin/ash.exe to replace /bin/sh.exe.
>> 
>> 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.

You're right that was also a reason.

cgf

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