Extend faq.using to discuss fork failures

Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com
Fri Aug 19 16:25:00 GMT 2011


On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 12:21:17PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>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????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!
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