Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/07/11/23:47:03
At 10:33 PM 7/11/2005, Chris Faylor wrote:
>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;
As a recap for those who haven't been reading this entire thread and
related ones, creating a statically linked version of bash has come up
before and it didn't generate much enthusiasm (i.e. if the point is to
make sh == bash so that there is more symmetry with Linux and less
complaints as a result of sh != bash, creating a derivative of bash
to act as sh is contrary to the original goal.) I think Chris is trying
to get out of this temporal causality loop, or in programming terms break
out of this while(1) loop...
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