Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/07/13/23:45:33
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According to Brian Dessent on 7/13/2005 7:21 PM:
> Thanks for the report, but this has already been noted and discussed
> recently in other threads. Several solutions have been proposed but I
> think the jury is still out on how to handle it.
>
> The main issue is that no matter how you implement the 'rebaseall'
> concept, you still won't be able to run it from a standard bash command
> prompt and have it modify the in-use DLLs. I think statically linking
> bash or providing a second version of bash that is statically linked
> have both been vetoed.
Actually, I am against a statically linked /bin/sh as bash, because
/bin/sh should not be any less full-featured than /bin/bash, or we are no
better off than having ash again with regards to the sh != bash complaints
on the list. But I am not entirely opposed to a statically linked
/usr/sbin/sh, a statically-linked version of bash with all interactive
features stripped (ie. no aliases, no history, no syntax extensions, ...).
Normal PATHs do not put sbin at the front (or maybe I could name it
/usr/sbin/bash-lite to be explicit and unique). But rebaseall would then
have a known good static shell, and still break the dependence on ash. By
the way, since sbin is not mounted by default, would such a reduced shell
belong better as /sbin/sh or /usr/sbin/sh?
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Life is short - so eat dessert first!
Eric Blake ebb9 AT byu DOT net
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