Jari Aalto dixit: >I've ported mksh to Cygwin and we're considerign including it in the >distributions.
Thanks, that’s great. Could you let me have a look at that, just out of interest, as I haven’t really understood the Cygwin packaging process myself, otherwise I had submitted one earlier. >The Cygwin users have found following bug in pdkdh's getopt handling, >which is also present in mksh. Could you take a look: > > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-01/msg00073.html This is not a bug in the shell, but rather in the script. You must either use OPTIND=1 together with shift, to reset option processing, as per the manual page, or just not use shift at all. bye, //mirabilos -- I believe no one can invent an algorithm. One just happens to hit upon it when God enlightens him. Or only God invents algorithms, we merely copy them. If you don't believe in God, just consider God as Nature if you won't deny existence. -- Coywolf Qi Hunt -- 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/
