rebaseall (temporary?) patch
Charles Wilson
cygwin@cwilson.fastmail.fm
Tue Jul 12 02:27:00 GMT 2005
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?
--
Chuck
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