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Re: Extend faq.using to discuss fork failures
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 06:13:22PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Aug 19 12:01, Ryan Johnson wrote:
>> BTW, I hope that rebasing wouldn't require every invocation of
>> setup.exe to shut down all cygwin processes... I really like how
>> right now I can pull new packages some configure script needs,
>> without having to shut down 4-5 sessions of emacs.
>
>Seriously, you could propose a patch to rebase, which leaves blocked
>DLLs alone and only tries to rebase the colliding ones, if any. Plus a
>patch to rebaseall to add a flag
>"--don't-test-for-ash-only-just-ignore-what-you-can't-change". Well, a
>single char option might be better...
>
>The rebase sources are available by CVS:
>
> $ cvs -d "pserver:anoncvs@sourceware.org:/cvs/cygwin-apps co rebase
>
>Send patches to the cygwin-apps list.
As I mentioned in cygwin-apps, I think a --backup option of some kind
would be useful so you could restore to a previous state.
Why won't anyone implement my idea????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!
cgf