rebaseall (temporary?) patch

[Charles Wilson]

Christopher Faylor wrote:

>>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.

Perhaps it would make sense to have a special bash.exe installed in 
/usr/sbin/ that is statically linked, for all dependencies other than 
cygwin1.dll -- and THAT is the thing that /usr/bin/sh.exe is a 
copy/symlink/hardlink/whatever of?

--
Chuck


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