B20 & bash 2.02.1(2) broken

[Austin David France]

CYGWIN_NT-4.0 MENPC1 20.0 (0.1/1/1) 1998-10-29 15:33:43 i486 unknown
BASH 2.02.1(2)-release
NTW40 Y2KSP4

I installed B20, and discovered a problem with the version of bash shipped
with b20.

I can log in using cygnus.bat OK, however logins via inetd don't work.

Further investigation reveals a very strange problem.  Bash 2.02.1(2) won't
execute a script whose name is less than 6 characters long.

A colleagues is experiencing exactly the same problem, except that bash
won't execute a script whose name is less than 4 characters long.

An interesting co-incidence is that I have 6 dos drive letters, my colleague
has only 4.  I am sure this is just a weird co-incidence.

I have replaced bash 2.02.1(2) with bash 2.02.1(1) and this corrects the
problem for both short script names and inetd (which was presumably a
related problem)

Austin David France
Mentor Systems plc
mailto:adf@mentor-systems.com


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