Maybe already reported bug, but
bash is using 1024 bytes block size, but should be using 512 bytes.
I'm including my easy patch.
diff -up bash-3.2/builtins/ulimit.def.blocksize bash-3.2/builtins/ulimit.def
--- bash-3.2/builtins/ulimit.def.blocksize 2008-06-02 14:59:38.0 +0200
+++ bash-3.2
Just wondering about the lack of response...
- Maybe nobody had time to look into this? (likely)
- nobody cares since it's really only a problem with the combination
of \w and color prompts?
(With \W it only happens with an artificially long directory name as
in my example.)
- Maybe this is a re
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According to Roman Rakus on 6/2/2008 7:06 AM:
| Maybe already reported bug, but
| bash is using 1024 bytes block size, but should be using 512 bytes.
I would much rather see sizes as 1k if POSIXLY_CORRECT is not set; in
other words, if you patch this
> - Maybe nobody had time to look into this? (likely)
It took a while, but I did look at it and fix the problem. The fix will
be in bash-4.0, and maybe in a patch to 3.2, depending on timing.
> according to the FAQ, but there are still problems"
> - no further replies.
Because I released a patc
Great to hear it! Thanks very much Chet.
On Jun 2, 3:14 pm, Chet Ramey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It took a while, but I did look at it and fix the problem. The fix will
> be in bash-4.0, and maybe in a patch to 3.2, depending on timing.
Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
Machine: i686
OS: cygwin
Compiler: gcc
Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash.exe' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i686'
-DCONF_OSTYPE='cygwin' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i686-pc-cygwin'
-DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/locale' -DPACKAGE='bash'
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According to Steve Kenton on 6/1/2008 7:46 PM:
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| Description:
|The top level configure produce by autoconf 2.59 fails to
|pass --quiet to itself recursivly if ac_recheck requires
|reconfiguration. The cygwin patch changes som
