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Re: rebaseall (temporary?) patch


On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 08:58:47AM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote:
>On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 12:44:18AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>The below patch to rebaseall will avoid errors when rebasing dlls used
>>by the shell which is executing it.
>>
>>It might be interesting to automatically write a .bat file which
>>performed the final step of renaming the rebased in-use dlls to their
>>correct names but it's too late to do that.
>>
>>[snip]
>
>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.

cgf

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