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Re: rebaseall (was Re: Perl Win32::Shortcut screws up fork)


On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 02:12:19PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>----Original Message----
>>From: Jason Tishler
>>Sent: 14 July 2005 12:56
>
>> On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 10:08:33PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 08:43:07AM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote:
>>>> My inclination is to convert rebaseall to an ash script.
>>> 
>>> Once again, let me point out -- that will not solve the problem.  You
>>> won't be able to run the script from bash, for obvious reasons.
>> 
>> Understood.
>
>  Out of curiosity, why isn't "exec /bin/sh.exe rebaseall" the solution to
>this problem?

Because of the way exec works for top-level cygwin processes.

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