On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 10:07:07PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >Changes from 3.0-8: >+ fix postinstall script to not nuke sh.1 man page >+ once again, dynamically link against libreadline, now that it has a hook >to allow bash to override getenv() >+ apply patch from Keith Reynolds to use spawnve() where possible. I >noticed some speedup, but not like the 50% he reported at >http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2005-07/msg00123.html > >Changes from 3.0-9: >+ disable spawnve() patch - it put the wrong value in $? and didn't >restore tty handling correctly >+ fix path parsing to allow "a:\file.exe" as a program name, and "cd a:\" >as an absolute directory > >I've noticed that the postinstall script 00bash.sh does not upgrade the >shell when it is executed by /bin/sh, even though it tries to do an "exec" >to overlay /bin/sh before doing the copy. Since the preremove script idea >didn't work, is there any way that the next setup.exe can be made to >respect the #!/bin/bash line when choosing the shell to execute, rather >falling back to /bin/bash only when /bin/sh isn't found?
"exec" doesn't work from top-level cygwin processes. Cygwin always keeps a stub of the old process around. I've uploaded bash-3.0-10. cgf
