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Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 23:43:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Reinhard Nissl <rnissl AT gmx DOT de>
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Subject: Re: missing sh.exe in coreutils
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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
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