From: TYann AT vet DOT com DOT au (Trevor Yann)
Subject: Re: Patch for bash
10 Sep 1998 04:13:12 -0700
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To: Geoffrey Noer <noer AT cygnus DOT com>, Trevor Yann <TYann AT vet DOT com DOT au>
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So far I haven't received any feedback on the patch. I would like to hold
off on having the patch incorporated into the mainline sources until there
is some feedback on how well it goes.

I suspect that having binaries available would encourage people to try out
the changes. Of course any bash binary should probably include the changes
Chris posted recently.

Unfortunately I don't have a public ftp area that I can put the binaries
on. Any takers?

At 01:06 10/09/98 -0700, Geoffrey Noer wrote:
>On Tue, Aug 11, 1998 at 08:26:56PM +1000, Trevor Yann wrote:
>>
>> The following patch allows bash to use spawn a lot of the time instead of
>> doing a fork/exec. It still doesn't make bash as fast as ash, but it is a
>> noticable improvement.
>
>Hi,
>
>Should I apply this patch to bash 2.02 and see how things go?  Have
>you gotten any feedback from people on the gnu-win32 mailing list?
>
>I've worked with the bash maintainer Chet Ramey in the past to get
>changes included in the official version and he was quite responsive
>to my Cygwin32 support changes.  If people like your changes, it would
>probably be best for you to contact him to get them added to the bash
>mainline sources.
>
>Regards,
>
>-- 
>Geoffrey Noer
>noer AT cygnus DOT com