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Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 08:43:07 -0400
From: Jason Tishler <jason AT tishler DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Perl Win32::Shortcut screws up fork
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On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 11:50:38PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 08:24:20PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> >But what was wrong with my idea of making rebaseall a #!/bin/ash
> >script?
> 
> You still couldn't run the script from bash since the dlls would still
> be loaded.  That would mean that you'd have to do something like:
> 
> c:\>ash rebaseall
> 
> (Currently rebaseall won't work as an ash script but the fix is
> trivial)
> 
> I guess that's better than nothing but I still think that just not
> rebasing the bash dlls is going to result in fewer mailing list
> complaints.

My inclination is to convert rebaseall to an ash script.

> OTOH, if we had some coordination between the maintainers of DLLs in
> the distribution we could reduce the need for rebase a lot.  I don't
> know if using --enable-auto-image-base would fix every problem but I
> suspect that it might help.

It will, but I have empirical evidence that DLLs need to be rebased with
some padding between them to guarantee that fork() does not fail.

Jason

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