Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <42CDE3D4.6030507@byu.net> Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 20:24:20 -0600 From: Eric Blake User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Perl Win32::Shortcut screws up fork References: <7231C15EAC2F164CA6DC326D97493C8BA1C3FA@exchange35.fed.cclrc.ac.uk> <42CDD3B8.69B6AB98@dessent.net> <20050708011859.GB24841@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <42CDD9CB.8390A097@dessent.net> <20050708020511.GA1718@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> In-Reply-To: <20050708020511.GA1718@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Christopher Faylor on 7/7/2005 8:05 PM: >>Option B would be to write a C or C++ program to do the job of what >>rebaseall currently does. That's even more work. > > I was going to suggest that but it requires that the user had loaded > the C compiler which seems like overkill for this. I think the intent of this suggestion was to replace rebaseall (the shell script) with rebaseall.exe (the static executable), not to have rebaseall output C source code, compile it, then run it. But what was wrong with my idea of making rebaseall a #!/bin/ash script? - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCzePU84KuGfSFAYARAtBVAKDHj6dMOmdifA3uILtO/XhOMVJ6YACfXP6V nSEuITr77f5r2+Buu2MMGxI= =3t+9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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/