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Re: bash: tab completion failure from (but not at) /
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 10:11:59 +0100
- Subject: Re: bash: tab completion failure from (but not at) /
- References: <200502080725.j187Pf0S024993@mx1.redhat.com> <20050208084415.GJ19096@cygbert.vinschen.de> <cubn58$e0u$1@sea.gmane.org>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Feb 8 19:58, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On Feb 8 07:19, fergus@bonhard.uklinux.net wrote:
> >>Recent remarks ("I have an idea about how to fix the race but it would
> >>introduce a destabilizing change that I'd rather not chance before 1.5.13
> >>is
> >>released") suggest that an updated cygwin1.dll might be imminent.
> >>Please could I mention a minor but annoying glitch described along with
> >>Corinna's immediate and effective fix at
> >>http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-05/msg00449.html but which has
> >>re-emerged in recent snapshots, at least since
> >>http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-12/msg00838.html, in which Corinna
> >>records her perplexity ("weird") at this re-emergence.
> >>Things worked properly in snapshot 20041222 but fail from 20041223.
> >Nevertheless, that's a bash problem. Is our bash maintainer still around?
> Yep, still here..
> I'll have a look at what your patch in Bash is up to tomorrow (still
> don't have a Windows machine at home) but it should be compiled in -
> there's no reason why it wouldn't be: the only thing I haven't changed
> is a fix for http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-09/msg01517.html.
>
> I'll report back when I've checked (ping me if that doesn't happen in 24
> hours - I'm rather busy lately...)
As I already wrote in http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-12/msg00838.html,
it seems that the patch is missing in the binary but not in the source.
A self-build version with the patch behaves correctly, the -17 version
does not.
If you have not much time anymore (and not even a Windows machine at home),
are you still willing to be bash maintainer for Cygwin? I'm curious if
there's a chance to upgrade us to 3.0 at one point. It seems rather stable
to me, though it needs the same fix to bash_directory_completion_hook
as the 2.05 version :-}
Corinna
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