Changed handling of "!" in /bin/sh?

Thu Jan 18 07:05:00 GMT 2007

On 17 Jan, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 06:14:27PM -0500, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: 
> >Eric Blake wrote on Tuesday, January 16, 2007 10:18 PM: 
> >> According to Luke Kendall on 1/16/2007 6:53 PM: 
> >>> 
> >>> Or, copy /bin/ash.exe to replace /bin/sh.exe. 
> >> 
> >> Not recommended. The reason cygwin moved to bash as 
> >> /bin/sh was to avoid ash bugs. 
> > 
> >I thought that it was more to avoid all the complaints 
> >that sh did not behave like bash, which is what many 
> >people expected. 
>> You're right that was also a reason. 

Wow, I'm really showing my age, aren't I? :-)
luke
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