Re: Perl Win32::Shortcut screws up fork

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>]

On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 06:15:36PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote:
>I think we will require a statically linked bash, or some kind of
>trickery in the rebaseall script.  One potential way around this might
>be for it to output a .cmd file (or .bat under 9x, grrr) and then exec()
>$COMSPEC to run the commands.  This would have the advantage of not
>requiring any Cygwin DLLs in use during the rebase, but it sounds more
>error prone and complicated.

But, the alternative of creating a version of bash just so that people
can run rebaseall sounds even more error prone.

I don't see any other foolproof way of doing this.

Btw, don't '.bat' files work on NT, too?

cgf

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