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B20 & bash 2.02.1(2) broken
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- Subject: B20 & bash 2.02.1(2) broken
- From: "Austin David France" <adf at mentor-systems dot com>
- Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 12:23:43 -0000
- Cc: "Jonathan Storey" <joz at mentor-systems dot com>
CYGWIN_NT-4.0 MENPC1 20.0 (0.1/1/1) 1998-10-29 15:33:43 i486 unknown
BASH 2.02.1(2)-release
NTW40 Y2KSP4
I installed B20, and discovered a problem with the version of bash shipped
with b20.
I can log in using cygnus.bat OK, however logins via inetd don't work.
Further investigation reveals a very strange problem. Bash 2.02.1(2) won't
execute a script whose name is less than 6 characters long.
A colleagues is experiencing exactly the same problem, except that bash
won't execute a script whose name is less than 4 characters long.
An interesting co-incidence is that I have 6 dos drive letters, my colleague
has only 4. I am sure this is just a weird co-incidence.
I have replaced bash 2.02.1(2) with bash 2.02.1(1) and this corrects the
problem for both short script names and inetd (which was presumably a
related problem)
Austin David France
Mentor Systems plc
mailto:adf@mentor-systems.com
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