Re: Bash-4.3-beta2 available for FTP

[Chet Ramey]

On 10/15/13 4:44 PM, Joshuah Hurst wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 10:36 PM, Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:
>> On 10/15/13 4:27 PM, Joshuah Hurst wrote:
>>
>>>>> What happened to the patch for cd -@ to handle NFSv4+Windows alternate
>>>>> streams? ksh93 already has this feature since quite some time and
>>>>> they're now even extending support even further to the builtin POSIX
>>>>> commands...
>>
>> I have not added it to bash yet.
> 
> How long does it take?

It takes as long as it takes.  I'm not being flip: I have a limited amount
of time to work on bash, and I prioritize.


> Chester/Cedric: Can you send the patch around so we can ask the Debian
> GNU/kOpenSolaris, Solaris and Illumos folks to integrate the patch in
> their next bash patch update, please?

The patch as Cedric submitted it will require some work to incorporate
into bash.  I am very far along in the bash-4.3 release cycle and may
not get to this before release.  I do not want to hold up the release for
this.

Chet
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