'read -p' in ash

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Wed Jan 16 16:11:00 GMT 2008


On Jan 15 18:24, Eric Blake wrote:
> According to Jerry D. Hedden on 1/15/2008 8:35 AM:
> | According to its man page, 'ash' supports the '-p' option on 'read'.
> |
> | Is this a bug, or am I doing something wrong?
>
> Cygwin's ash is notoriously out-of-date and non-POSIX compliant.  For

It's actually notoriously unmaintained and I am the unmaintainer.

> almost all cases, you are probably better off using bash (the exception is
> when running rebaseall, to affect even the libraries used by bash).

That's the only useful situation for using ash.  In all other cases,
bash is sh.


Corinna

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