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 From: "Dave Korn" To: Subject: RE: rebaseall (was Re: Perl Win32::Shortcut screws up fork) Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 16:28:42 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <42D67DFC.4040205@familiehaase.de> Message-ID: ----Original Message---- >From: Gerrit P. Haase >Sent: 14 July 2005 16:00 > Dave Korn wrote: >>> On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 11:50:08PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>> >>>> OTOH, writing a mingw C program to do what rebaseall does wouldn't be >>>> *that* hard. >>> >>> Agreed. > >> Once again, let me point out -- that will not solve the problem. You >> won't be able to run the mingw executable from bash, for obvious >> reasons....... > > Isn't it possible to identify all cygwin processes, terminate them and > do stuff after that is finished, even if the process was started at the > bash prompt? Absolutely. It should look for cygwin services as well. I was thinking of having a go at it in the next week or two. I was also wondering whether really it shouldn't be part of setup.exe (which I think came up in discussion on -apps recently, but I wasn't following closely - have to go check the archives). cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- 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/