-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 A new release of bash, 3.1-9, is now available, replacing 3.1-8 as the current version. 3.1-6 remains as the previous version.
NEWS: ===== Due to complaints on the mailing list, this version attempts to alleviate some of the pain of people who have difficulties working around \r\n line endings in scripts residing on binary mounts. First, if a script is specified with a DOS path instead of a POSIX path (although this is not the recommended behavior in cygwin), bash will ensure that the underlying mount mode is respected, rather than the default cygwin behavior of using binary mode, allowing the use of DOS paths on text mounts the way 3.1-6 behaved. Second, this release adds a new shopt, igncr, which dynamically tells bash to ignore all \r in the input file when it is set; however, it defaults to unset. With this shopt, it is possible to make a bash script work on binary mounts even if it has \r\n line endings, by adding the following line as the first non-comment: shopt -s igncr;# The comment is necessary since bash parses a line at a time before processing shopt, so you want to avoid interpreting the last potential \r literally before the change takes place. If you want your script to be portable to other platforms or shells that don't understand igncr, you can write it as: (shopt -s igncr) 2>/dev/null && eval 'shopt -s igncr';# For now, the igncr shopt is only documented in this mail; I thought it better to get 3.1-9 out the door than to spend time also patching the online documentation and delaying the release. It is also a chance for any feedback to the list to influence whether I need to make 3.1-10 in the near future. Meanwhile, if you use binary mounts (recommended), bash will treat \r literally unless you use the new shopt, because of the speed increase possible by parsing files literally instead of one character at a time. The d2u tool can convert scripts to avoid \r\n line endings. If you use text mounts, \r is silently ignored, with no need to worry about using the igncr shopt. It is probably better to limit text mounts to just the directories with problematic shell scripts, rather than trying to make your entire cygwin installation textmode, as not all cygwin tools behave gracefully on text mounts. Also, it is marginally faster to use the shopt on a binary mount than it is to use a text mount, although neither workaround is as fast as just converting your script to use plain \n line endings. Remember, you must not have any bash or /bin/sh instances running when you upgrade the bash package. This release will work with cygwin-1.5.21-1 or later. DESCRIPTION: ============ Bash is an sh-compatible shell that incorporates useful features from the Korn shell (ksh) and C shell (csh). It is intended to conform to the IEEE POSIX P1003.2/ISO 9945.2 Shell and Tools standard. It offers functional improvements over sh for both programming and interactive use. In addition, most sh scripts can be run by Bash without modification. As of the bash 3.0 series, cygwin /bin/sh defaults to bash, not ash, similar to Linux distributions. UPDATE: ======= To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Save it and run setup, answer the questions and pick up 'bash' in the 'Base' category (it should already be selected). DOWNLOAD: ========= Note that downloads from sources.redhat.com (aka cygwin.com) aren't allowed due to bandwidth limitations. This means that you will need to find a mirror which has this update, please choose the one nearest to you: http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html QUESTIONS: ========== If you want to make a point or ask a question the Cygwin mailing list is the appropriate place. - -- Eric Blake volunteer cygwin bash maintainer CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO: ================================= To unsubscribe to the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sources.redhat.com/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFId4o84KuGfSFAYARApmMAJ4+j5y2FZp+FothYj2tM3vWn2CrIQCdFx7Y /HLyAmbffKUG5Q6Al4BWpXY= =4IUj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
