In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter Seebach writ es: >Can we just kill this now? Take out the "-j", leave the support for getopts >in the shell, and all the shell scripters will be happy. The configure >scripts will run at exactly the same speed, and I will happily join in >defending the decision to trim the job control and history features from the >shell to make a minimalist shell designed for scripting, leaving people the >option of using bash or pdksh if they want an interactive shell.
I may be forced to retract this. Out of idle curiousity, I did timing comparisons between the stripped-down shell and the "bloated" /bin/sh on NetBSD. The bloated shell wins, by about 15%. I don't know why, but I suspect it has to do with configure using something which is a builtin in the bigger shell, and an external command in the smaller one. I find this ironic. -s -- 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/
