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 Reply-To: Cygwin List Message-Id: <6.2.1.2.0.20050711230932.03d15ae0@pop.prospeed.net> Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 23:19:01 -0400 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Larry Hall Subject: Re: rebaseall (temporary?) patch In-Reply-To: <20050712023329.GG17886@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> 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> <20050712023329 DOT GG17886 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 10:33 PM 7/11/2005, Chris Faylor wrote: >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; As a recap for those who haven't been reading this entire thread and related ones, creating a statically linked version of bash has come up before and it didn't generate much enthusiasm (i.e. if the point is to make sh == bash so that there is more symmetry with Linux and less complaints as a result of sh != bash, creating a derivative of bash to act as sh is contrary to the original goal.) I think Chris is trying to get out of this temporal causality loop, or in programming terms break out of this while(1) loop... -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/