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RE: Similar Bash 3.1.18 CR/LF Problem
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 18:10:57 +0100
- Subject: RE: Similar Bash 3.1.18 CR/LF Problem
On 04 October 2006 18:06, Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote:
> Seriously, I'd have a hard time believing that supporting
> <CR><LF> endings would noticably impact performance if it
> were done as part of upstream BASH. Special-casing Cygwin
> (especially when you start doing things like checking for
> DOS paths, examining the first line, etc.) would impact
> performance, surely. So I agree--don't do that.
That's a total non-sequitur. A piece of code will have the same impact,
whether it's included directly in the upstream sources, or whether it's a
cygwin local patch surrounded by #ifdef __CYGWIN__.
cheers,
DaveK
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