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Re: Bash returns incorrect process status
On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 12:31:34PM -0400, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote:
>Dolton Tony AB wrote:
>>I've noticed that bash doesn't get issued too often.
>It doesn't for three reasons:
>1. the maintainer for Cygwin (that would be me) is very busy
>2. The current version of Bash is very, very stable
>3. I'm hesitant (reluctant, even) to let a new release of Bash go out
> the door without proper testing, even if it does fix a bug reported
> on this list every-so-often - i.e. I don't jump on every patch to
> apply it tout-de-suite and send out a new release: there's too much
> that depends on Bash.. That, and reason #1..
These are all excellent reasons (especially 2 and 3), FWIW. Bash is
such a crucial part of the release that it pays to be cautious.
cgf
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