bug with built-in commands in bash when redirecting output

[Norton Allen]

>
>
>The following one liner illustrates a bug in sh:
>$ /bin/bash -c '/bin/bash -cx '\''x=`echo hello`'\''' > @x
>++ echo hello
>+ x=$'hello\r'
>$
>  
>
I'm wondering if the problem I am seeing is from the same source. I find 
that 'apachectl stop' no longer works since a recent cygwin update. I 
can see that the PIDFILE is being written with a \r\n line ending. 
'apachectl stop' then reads the file with

    PID=`cat $PIDFILE`

$PID then includes the \r character, and the subsequent kill operation 
fails as a result.

Is there something that changed recently that is causing this to fail 
now? I'm pretty sure this worked until recently.

Norton Allen


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