Similar Bash 3.1.18 CR/LF Problem

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

Igor Peshansky wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, Eric Blake wrote:
> 
>> According to Wilks, Dan on 9/28/2006 3:59 PM:
>>> That was my guess.  But since this was the cygwin installer run off
>>> of the cygwin site I thought I'd mention it, if for no other reason
>>> than tracking purposes.  Maybe there's a problem with the installer /
>>> postinstall script when downgrading? Or perhaps that's intended
>>> behavior.  It was just surprising.
>> It's intended behavior; the postinstall script was not written with
>> downgrades in mind (I may rethink that for my next release; but, it won't
>> help you, because downgrading to 3.1-8 or earlier will not have this patch).
>>
>>> And... it didn't run again when re-upgrading just bash to the new
>>> (broken) version so we had to manually copy bash.exe to sh.exe.
>> What makes you think the current version is broken?  In my opinion, it
>> works just fine.  However, your discovery that using Windows paths
>> instead of POSIX paths makes cygwin revert to binary file opens on text
>> mounts is rather interesting.  I don't know if cygwin1.dll is at fault
>> for that strange behavior.  It may be possible for me to patch bash to
>> always convert script names to POSIX before opening them, so that you
>> would get the right mount behavior, but I'm not looking forward to such
>> a hack.
> 
> IIRC, Cygwin explicitly treats out-of-mount (Win32) paths as binary.
> 	Igor


Yes, that's fits my recollection as well.  Since both of us recall this,
there's no need for anyone to check the source.  Two IIRCs means we must
be right! ;-)


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