[ANNOUNCEMENT] Testversion uploaded: bash-2.05b-10

[David Rothenberger <daveroth at acm dot org>]

Corinna Vinschen writes:
 > Please give it a try, especially if you're using textmode mounts.  If
 > nobody complains about problems which result from that patch within,
 > say, two or three weeks, I'll make this the standard version of bash.

I don't have any problems running scripts from textmode mounts, but
I did notice a change in behavior while sourcing DOS files from
binmode mounts.

With the prior version of bash, I had no problems sourcing a
DOS-formatted file from a binmode mount, but with the latest
version, I get parsing errors.  Here's a simple test:

I created two files, "dos" and "unix", each with the following
content (without the dash lines, of course):

----------------------------------------------------------------------
if [ 1 -eq 1 ]; then echo true; else echo false; fi
----------------------------------------------------------------------

I then used dos2unix and unix2dos to ensure that "dos" used DOS line
endings and "unix" used the other kind.  This was all done on a
binmode mount, by the way.

Sourcing the two files yielded the following results:

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$ . dos
bash: dos: line 2: syntax error: unexpected end of file

$ . unix
true
----------------------------------------------------------------------

When I copied these two files to a textmode mount, reran the
dos2unix and unix2dos commands, and repeated the above statements,
both commands returned true.

I don't regard this as a bug, since everything works fine with
textmode mounts and it's perfectly reasonable, IMHO, for the parse
errors to occur when trying to source a file with DOS endings on a
binmode mount.  It's what would happen under Linux, after all.

But I wanted to mention it because it is a change in behavior, and
might cause a bunch of "bash isn't working" postings when this
version of bash is made official.

cygcheck output is attached, in case it matters.

-Dave

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