Renaming an in-use file is not a new Windows feature. It's certainly been there since Windows NT and 200, and I'm pretty sure it's in 9x as well. I'd check if I had a 9x box handy, but instead, Reinhard, as the one who raised the concern, maybe you can :-)
stephan(); -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Reinhard Nissl Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 7:15 AM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: missing sh.exe in coreutils Hi, Michael Schaap wrote: > On 15-Aug-2005 10:45, Brian Dessent wrote: > >> Sigurd Nes wrote: >> >>> Is sh.exe missing from coreutils? >>> >>> I am not able to use sh after a upgrade - and sh-utils is listed as >>> _obsolete >> >> First, sh is not a part of coreutils nor its predecessor sh-utils. >> Until recently, /bin/sh has been ash, in the package 'ash'. Now it is a >> copy of /bin/bash, from the package 'bash'. The new bash postinstall >> script is supposed to make this change for you when upgrading, but >> because the shell itself is used to run the script it does not always >> work. You can just manually run /etc/postinstall/00bash.sh.done and it >> should fix things. Or re-run setup and set 'bash' to reinstall. > > Apologies if I'm stating something obvious and well-known, but if the > problem is that a currently running sh.exe cannot be > deleted/overwritten, note that you *can* rename a running executable. > So something like > rm -f /bin/sh0.exe > [[ -f /bin/sh.exe ]] && mv /bin/sh.exe /bin/sh0.exe > cp -fpuv /bin/bash.exe /bin/sh.exe > might do the job. But isn't renaming a running executable only a feature of recent Windows OSs? I think it didn't work with Windows NT and Windows 2000. Bye. -- Dipl.-Inform. (FH) Reinhard Nissl mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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/ -- 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/
