missing sh.exe in coreutils

[Reinhard Nissl]

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:rnissl@gmx.de

--
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/