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Re: Releasing new sh-utils now with access() change?
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- To: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 12:42:45 -0500
- Subject: Re: Releasing new sh-utils now with access() change?
- References: <20030228170058.GA9681@redhat.com> <3E5F9E9C.6A00AA6E@ieee.org>
- Reply-to: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 12:38:36PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>There is no reason for me to hold off on releasing a new sh-utils, with
>>the eaccess -> access change now, right? /bin/test won't work any
>>worse than it does already with this change, right?
>
>Chris,
>
>I would not release a new /bin/test until 1.3.21 is out. With 1.3.20
>the behavior will be different, sometimes better, sometimes worse. In
>particular the current /bin/test always produces correct results on
>files created by Cygwin, while sh (and the new /bin/test ) currently
>don't.
Ok. No problem. Releasing it now was just one less thing for me to
remember when I eventually produce 1.3.21 but it's no big deal to wait.
cgf