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Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 22:22:40 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: rebaseall (temporary?) patch
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References: <20050708044418.GA6431@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <20050711125847.GC3856@tishler.net> <20050712021350.GC17886@trixie.casa.cgf.cx>
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On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 10:13:50PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 08:58:47AM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote:
>>On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 12:44:18AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>The below patch to rebaseall will avoid errors when rebasing dlls used
>>>by the shell which is executing it.
>>>
>>>It might be interesting to automatically write a .bat file which
>>>performed the final step of renaming the rebased in-use dlls to their
>>>correct names but it's too late to do that.
>>>
>>>[snip]
>>
>>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
                                                           ash
>seems unfortunate to me.  It means we can never deprecate ash.

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