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Re: Fwd: Non-upstream patches for bash (2014)
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Fwd: Non-upstream patches for bash (2014) |
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Mon, 26 Jun 2017 19:48:12 -0400 |
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On 6/26/17 4:35 PM, tetsujin@scope-eye.net wrote:
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> That's not a reason why this disparity is "desirable" IMO.
It's not intended to be anything but an explanation of why things are
the way they are: compatibility and backwards compatibility.
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/