X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_NEUTRAL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4F73D060.3000306@cs.utoronto.ca> Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:00:48 -0400 From: Ryan Johnson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120327 Thunderbird/11.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: rebase-4.1.0-1 References: <4F712CFC.9050603@cs.utoronto.ca> <20120327083621.GA30721@calimero.vinschen.de> <4F724CD6.8020600@users.sourceforge.net> <20120328073310.GD25716@calimero.vinschen.de> <4F72EA5A.3000500@users.sourceforge.net> <20120328194306.GA31620@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <20120328201742.M4866@ds.net> <4F7393F5.6010307@users.sourceforge.net> In-Reply-To: <4F7393F5.6010307@users.sourceforge.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 On 28/03/2012 6:43 PM, JonY wrote: > On 3/29/2012 04:21, Brian Wilson wrote: >>>> I hope it doesn't leave the system in an unusable state if some DLL is >>>> still in use. >>> I may be wrong but I'm nearly certain that has been Corinna's goal from >>> the start. She is sometimes just a little too M. A lot of her >>> seemingly tireless efforts in getting Cygwin working are actually >>> very subtle attempts to leave systems inoperational. Nah, that's Microsoft's job. >>> >> LOL >> >> Yes, I'm sure she's diabolical that way (I guess M stands for methodical or >> meticulous). It must be the long nights spent slaving over Cygwin code has >> warped her thinking into providing helpful things like the automatic rebaseall >> feature (thank you Corina, your work has not been unappreciated) which has >> long been needed. >> >> :) :) :) >> > I don't know, I'd still feel better if there was an option to make it > not automatic, like providing a new checkbox at the end of setup "Rebase > DLLs after setup completes". It should probably be ticked by default for > most users. Murphy's Law says your first fork failure ever comes within minutes of disabling automatic rebase after a setup run ;) I've had rebase errors show up after setup installed only new packages, even when the process calling fork() seemed to have nothing whatsoever to do with those packages. Ryan -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple