At 10:33 PM 7/11/2005, Chris Faylor wrote: >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? > > break; > break; > break; > break; > break;
As a recap for those who haven't been reading this entire thread and related ones, creating a statically linked version of bash has come up before and it didn't generate much enthusiasm (i.e. if the point is to make sh == bash so that there is more symmetry with Linux and less complaints as a result of sh != bash, creating a derivative of bash to act as sh is contrary to the original goal.) I think Chris is trying to get out of this temporal causality loop, or in programming terms break out of this while(1) loop... -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/
