simplifying rebaseall

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 9/17/2010 10:50 AM, Charles Wilson wrote:
> On 9/17/2010 10:39 AM, Al wrote:
>> A second thought. I wonder if reabaseall could be improved to run from
>> within bash, without the need to close down all running windows. Then
>> it could even be included into build scripts to be run after each
>> build.
>
> No, because the DLLs used by bash are OFTEN the ones that actually DO
> need to be rebased (because they are used by darn near everything, so we
> need to ensure that their image base does not conflict with anything
> else): libintl, libiconv, libncurses, ...
>
>> Assuming that those DLL which are up and running typically don't need
>> to be rebased, couldn't one simply exclude them from being rebased?
>> I.e. with on option:
>>
>> rebaseall --exclude-loaded
>
> You're missing the point of rebaseALL.  Murphy says that if you don't
> rebase dll A, then dll A *will* be the culprit the next time you get
> that 'unable to remap' error.
>
> With regards to your earlier .bat file idea...Meh. You shouldn't need to
> DO it that often -- certainly not often enough to clutter your start
> menu or desktop with a shortcut!

And it invites casual use without understanding the what and why.  This means
more people using it for no reason and more problems using it when it is
needed because people don't understand the requirements to make it work
(i.e. *nobody* will read the readme... wait, there's a readme? ;-) ).

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A: Yes.
> Q: Are you sure?
>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
>>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?

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