X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 16:08:02 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Win32 error 487 and rebaseall
Message-ID: <20060704140802.GG18873@calimero.vinschen.de>
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
References: <44AA746E DOT 9030306 AT may DOT be>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <44AA746E.9030306@may.be>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i
Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:cygwin-unsubscribe-archive-cygwin=delorie DOT com AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com

On Jul  4 16:00, Cliff Stanford wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
> 
> Thought it was worth reporting my experience today back to this list.
> 
> These "Win32 error 487" messages were getting worse and worse to the
> point that it was becoming impossible to start Xwin and run an xterm.
> 
> Searching back through the list I found
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-09/msg00919.html where John Wei
> makes a reference to rebaseall.
> 
> Unfortunately, /bin/rebaseall fails to execute on the current release of
> cygwin (1.5.20-1) because of the following line:
> 
> grep -q -i -v '/ash$' /proc/[0-9]*/exename
> 
> It is supposed to ensure that only ash is running.  The problem is that
> cat /proc/[0-9]*/exename produces:
> 
> /usr/bin/ash.exe
> 
> Thus the script needs to be modified to say:
> 
> grep -q -i -v '/ash\.exe$' /proc/[0-9]*/exename

The script should be modified to allow both variations, with and without
.exe suffix.  The reason is that the suffix disappears again when using
the experimental CYGWIN=transparent_exe option, which might become not
so experimental at one point in an only vaguely defined future...


Corinna

-- 
Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Project Co-Leader          cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat

--
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/