12 Sep 2006 14:05
Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated [experimental]: bash-3.1-7
Eric Blake <ericblake <at> comcast.net>
2006-09-12 12:05:06 GMT
2006-09-12 12:05:06 GMT
> > That is being set by cygcheck, just before invoking external programs. It > > probably had something to do with forcing external programs to not rearrange > > option arguments (for example, "ls foo --all" treats --all as an option, > > but "POSIXLY_CORRECT=1 ls foo --all" treats --all as a filename). But I think > > it is possible to get along without doing it (repeating the example, "ls -- > > foo --all" treats --all as a filename), and I personally think that cygcheck > > should be patched to QUIT setting POSIXLY_CORRECT, so that we can tell the > > masochists apart from normal users. > > Ah, ok, so seeing it in cygcheck is a false positive. Didn't think that > cygcheck would tinker with my environment (maybe it should know it is > doing so and preserve the invocation value and print that?), so I didn't > think to actually 'echo $POSIXLY_CORRECT'.> 2006-09-11 Eric Blake <ebb9 <at> byu.net> * cygcheck.cc (main): Restore POSIXLY_CORRECT before displaying user's environment.
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2006-09-11 Eric Blake <ebb9 <at> byu.net>
* cygcheck.cc (main): Restore POSIXLY_CORRECT before displaying
user's environment.
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