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 Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 23:43:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Reinhard Nissl cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: missing sh.exe in coreutils In-Reply-To: <4300A36B.10405@gmx.de> Message-ID: References: <7062534.1124094500717.JavaMail.adm-moff@moffice5.nsc.no> <43005647.59447F23@dessent.net> <43009ED5.50409@mscha.org> <4300A36B.10405@gmx.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Reinhard Nissl wrote: > Michael Schaap wrote: > > > note that you *can* rename a running executable. > > But isn't renaming a running executable only a feature of recent Windows > OSs? FYI, even on WinXP, which does allow renaming a currently running program, Cygwin will break, since it apparently relies on the application image being present on-disk when forking. So, while "mv /bin/bash.exe /bin/bash1.exe" works, subsequent invocations of any command result in "bash: fork: No such file or directory". Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/