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Re: Hope this topic isn't taboo yet


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According to Brett Serkez on 1/1/2006 1:01 PM:
> 
> On the ZoneLabs message boards I found references to use of tcsh in
> place of bash, that seems to work around the problem as follows:
> 

I wonder what the difference is between bash and tcsh that gives rise to
that idea.  Your choice of shell shouldn't affect your CPU usage; and if
there is a bug in bash, I would like more details to help reproduce what
it is.

> 
> - Modify individual scripts, as appropriate, and change the she-bang
> line to: #!/bin/tcsh.

Whoa there - that usually doesn't work.  bash and tcsh have completely
different ideas of syntax, and blindly changing the #! to a different
shell is liable to lead to failure.

- --
Life is short - so eat dessert first!

Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
volunteer cygwin bash maintainer
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