Mailing-List:	contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe:	<mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive:	<http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post:	<mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help:	<mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender:	cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To:	mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Date:	Mon, 11 Jul 2005 22:33:29 -0400
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: rebaseall (temporary?) patch
Message-ID:	<20050712023329.GG17886@trixie.casa.cgf.cx>
Reply-To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
References:	<20050708044418 DOT GA6431 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <20050711125847 DOT GC3856 AT tishler DOT net> <20050712021350 DOT GC17886 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <42D32A83 DOT 60807 AT cwilson DOT fastmail DOT fm>
Mime-Version:	1.0
In-Reply-To:	<42D32A83.60807@cwilson.fastmail.fm>
User-Agent:	Mutt/1.5.8i

On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 10:27:15PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>>>Thanks for the patch, but I'm leaning towards a simpler solution:
>>>rebaseall will verify only ash is running and exit if other Cygwin
>>>processes are running unless an override option (e.g., "-f") is
>>>supplied.
>>
>>
>>So, anyone who installs rebase will also need to install bash.  That
>>seems unfortunate to me.  It means we can never deprecate ash.
>
>Perhaps it would make sense to have a special bash.exe installed in 
>/usr/sbin/ that is statically linked, for all dependencies other than 
>cygwin1.dll -- and THAT is the thing that /usr/bin/sh.exe is a 
>copy/symlink/hardlink/whatever of?

  break;
  break;
  break;
  break;
  break;

cgf

--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/

- Raw text -