Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 22:33:29 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: rebaseall (temporary?) patch Message-ID: <20050712023329.GG17886@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20050708044418 DOT GA6431 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <20050711125847 DOT GC3856 AT tishler DOT net> <20050712021350 DOT GC17886 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <42D32A83 DOT 60807 AT cwilson DOT fastmail DOT fm> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42D32A83.60807@cwilson.fastmail.fm> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 10:27:15PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: > >>>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 >>seems unfortunate to me. It means we can never deprecate ash. > >Perhaps it would make sense to have a special bash.exe installed in >/usr/sbin/ that is statically linked, for all dependencies other than >cygwin1.dll -- and THAT is the thing that /usr/bin/sh.exe is a >copy/symlink/hardlink/whatever of? break; break; break; break; break; cgf -- 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/