Similar Bash 3.1.18 CR/LF Problem

mwoehlke mwoehlke@tibco.com
Wed Oct 4 17:34:00 GMT 2006


Dave Korn wrote:
> On 04 October 2006 18:06, Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote:
> 
> 
>> Seriously, I'd have a hard time believing that supporting
>> <CR><LF> endings would noticably impact performance if it
>> were done as part of upstream BASH. Special-casing Cygwin
>> (especially when you start doing things like checking for
>> DOS paths, examining the first line, etc.) would impact
>> performance, surely. So I agree--don't do that.
> 
>   That's a total non-sequitur.  A piece of code will have the same impact,
> whether it's included directly in the upstream sources, or whether it's a
> cygwin local patch surrounded by #ifdef __CYGWIN__.

"Your facts are out of order." :-D

-- 
Matthew
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