From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 34430 invoked by alias); 23 Feb 2017 23:44:58 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 34417 invoked by uid 89); 23 Feb 2017 23:44:57 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_SORBS_SPAM,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=rightfully, H*M:google X-HELO: mail-oi0-f49.google.com Received: from mail-oi0-f49.google.com (HELO mail-oi0-f49.google.com) (209.85.218.49) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 23 Feb 2017 23:44:56 +0000 Received: by mail-oi0-f49.google.com with SMTP id s205so3396154oif.3 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2017 15:44:56 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:message-id:date:from:subject:to:references :user-agent; bh=f2WN7N3fC8pfQzi1RkWtYNpVXgSYZCeUk3I0DFRtXNk=; b=GdT1rCcF72vI4GwnCOUhkwICNVcx7XETYKBwroW53+w9zdI53LqPfTVC/7cOdvi2bU 4rAJ1pBahAmobIY/eBKReVXjSox4Em6DPUe5n8Oc6j07jO6Y9G4yshKfIQqUuptokzoL ji50VzHQhuuS50L9MxAQMutNj971McqYitY0jlXtmhHfmWa8sIkwaIqDGeom4V4lgkK5 o9OsUmbnjmNQwEA8q9DISZU6VtUxdX5YkjXsZa9mq2LAlZ01geYtUPZqWuLcUul5jvJf +0tyLHZBWobcsZ0hbDCFYMC0XtMwCTxWBJwDmIaHCHjFO8o1IlmjvYzVuXXjGjphfg6c mJhg== X-Gm-Message-State: AMke39nS0LU1I7fhAozTOgBRzCq3hDnjJ/kvST7qOWBhlbzEijKFA+gZLKx+r5vWw5urZQ== X-Received: by 10.202.6.70 with SMTP id 67mr12843035oig.50.1487893494598; Thu, 23 Feb 2017 15:44:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from a8i ([2605:6000:9fc0:56:811:343f:f904:d318]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id r84sm2195604oie.24.2017.02.23.15.44.54 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 23 Feb 2017 15:44:54 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <58af73f6.57a8ca0a.9eea8.c76d@mx.google.com> Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 23:44:00 -0000 From: Steven Penny X-Google-Original-From: Steven Penny Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: dash-0.5.9.1-1 To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <74aa0c8b-c268-dbd4-88b7-cda78186f321@SystematicSw.ab.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8; format=flowed User-Agent: Tryst/2.0.1 (github.com/svnpenn/tryst) X-SW-Source: 2017-02/txt/msg00305.txt.bz2 On Thu, 23 Feb 2017 12:59:27, Brian Inglis wrote: > Some people may continue to need or prefer using bash in POSIX mode. You might know this already, but "Bash in POSIX mode" is not quite POSIX. For example, arrays are not defined by POSIX: http://mywiki.wooledge.org/Bashism#Arrays Yes Bash even in POSIX mode handles them: $ bash --posix -c 'z=(2 3 4); echo ${z[2]}' 4 Dash rightfully does not handle them: $ dash -c 'z=(2 3 4); echo ${z[2]}' dash: 1: Syntax error: "(" unexpected -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple