rebaseall (temporary?) patch

Christopher Faylor cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com
Tue Jul 12 02:33:00 GMT 2005


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?

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cgf

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