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Re: [PATCH RFC] fork: reduce chances for "address space is already occupied" errors
- From: Michael Haubenwallner <michael dot haubenwallner at ssi-schaefer dot com>
- To: cygwin-patches at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2019 14:38:18 +0200
- Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] fork: reduce chances for "address space is already occupied" errors
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On 4/3/19 2:26 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Apr 3 12:38, Michael Haubenwallner wrote:
>> Furthermore, with so called "Stacked Prefix", it is possible to have a second
>> level of Gentoo Prefix, so what I'm after is some option to tell the rebase
>> utility which database to record dll base addresses into, and which multiple(!)
>> databases take into account while performing a rebase.
>
> rebase is OSS.
Yeah, and I have found the git repo so far. But I'm wondering if distfiles like
"cygwin-rebase-4.4.4.tar.bz2" are already available somewhere more persistent
than via the current Cygwin distro source package "rebase-4.4.4-1-src.tar.xz"?
> There's nothing keeping you from providing patches
> to make your scenario work ;)
I'm already testing some patch adding a '--destdir' option...
Thanks!
/haubi/