Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/08/15/10:15:30
Hi,
Michael Schaap wrote:
> On 15-Aug-2005 10:45, Brian Dessent wrote:
>
>> Sigurd Nes wrote:
>>
>>> Is sh.exe missing from coreutils?
>>>
>>> I am not able to use sh after a upgrade - and sh-utils is listed as
>>> _obsolete
>>
>> First, sh is not a part of coreutils nor its predecessor sh-utils.
>> Until recently, /bin/sh has been ash, in the package 'ash'. Now it is a
>> copy of /bin/bash, from the package 'bash'. The new bash postinstall
>> script is supposed to make this change for you when upgrading, but
>> because the shell itself is used to run the script it does not always
>> work. You can just manually run /etc/postinstall/00bash.sh.done and it
>> should fix things. Or re-run setup and set 'bash' to reinstall.
>
> Apologies if I'm stating something obvious and well-known, but if the
> problem is that a currently running sh.exe cannot be
> deleted/overwritten, note that you *can* rename a running executable.
> So something like
> rm -f /bin/sh0.exe
> [[ -f /bin/sh.exe ]] && mv /bin/sh.exe /bin/sh0.exe
> cp -fpuv /bin/bash.exe /bin/sh.exe
> might do the job.
But isn't renaming a running executable only a feature of recent Windows
OSs?
I think it didn't work with Windows NT and Windows 2000.
Bye.
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Dipl.-Inform. (FH) Reinhard Nissl
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