On Jan 15 18:24, Eric Blake wrote: > According to Jerry D. Hedden on 1/15/2008 8:35 AM: > | According to its man page, 'ash' supports the '-p' option on 'read'. > | > | Is this a bug, or am I doing something wrong? > > Cygwin's ash is notoriously out-of-date and non-POSIX compliant. For
It's actually notoriously unmaintained and I am the unmaintainer. > almost all cases, you are probably better off using bash (the exception is > when running rebaseall, to affect even the libraries used by bash). That's the only useful situation for using ash. In all other cases, bash is sh. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/
