Re: Cannot access volumes mounted with 'mklink /d' which point to a volume UUID

2017-02-24 Thread L. A. Walsh
Corinna Vinschen wrote: This type of directory symlink to a GUID volume path isn't supported at all yet in Cygwin. As I mentioned, symlinks don't support volume destinations under windows, but Junctions should be used instead. They half-way work under Cygwin (junctions to volumes look like mo

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: dash-0.5.9.1-1

2017-02-24 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2017-02-24 07:32, Eric Blake wrote: > On 02/23/2017 05:44 PM, Steven Penny wrote: >> On Thu, 23 Feb 2017 12:59:27, Brian Inglis wrote: >>> Some people may continue to need or prefer using bash in POSIX >>> mode. >> You might know this already, but "Bash in POSIX mode" is not quite >> POSIX. For

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: dash-0.5.9.1-1

2017-02-24 Thread Lee Dilkie
On 2/24/2017 9:43 AM, Eric Blake wrote: On 02/23/2017 10:57 PM, Steven Penny wrote: Or more likely, many people likely have pre-existing scripts wrongly written as #!/bin/sh but which use bash-ism rather than portable POSIX-specified shell However, I think it is worth the trouble. If you'd

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: dash-0.5.9.1-1

2017-02-24 Thread Eric Blake
On 02/23/2017 10:57 PM, Steven Penny wrote: >> Or more likely, many people likely have pre-existing scripts wrongly >> written as #!/bin/sh but which use bash-ism rather than portable >> POSIX-specified shell > > However, I think it is worth the trouble. If you'd like, I can post experimental ver

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: dash-0.5.9.1-1

2017-02-24 Thread Eric Blake
On 02/23/2017 05:44 PM, Steven Penny wrote: > On Thu, 23 Feb 2017 12:59:27, Brian Inglis wrote: >> Some people may continue to need or prefer using bash in POSIX mode. > > You might know this already, but "Bash in POSIX mode" is not quite > POSIX. For > example, arrays are not defined by POSIX: Y