-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Corinna Vinschen on 7/6/2005 1:19 AM: > Looks basically good to me and I was going to use it for the 00ash.sh > script. It just doesn't work on NTFS. The reason is that, as soon as > the hardlink has been created, the script will fail to run another time: > > $ /bin/bash 00bash.sh > $ /bin/bash 00bash.sh > ln: cannot remove `/bin/sh.exe': Permission denied > > Unfortunately, since the hardlink points to the same executable which > is going to be replaced *and* is running the script, the OS refuses > to unlink the executable.
As a last-ditch workaround, there is always exec (so that bash is no longer running, and then the unlink can then succeed): ln -f /bin/bash.exe /bin/sh.exe || exec ln -f /bin/bash.exe /bin/sh.exe But this is fragile, so I have resorted to using cp. Usually, the trade is space for speed, so I imagine that the space savings of using a small /bin/sh wrapper that execl()s bash would be offset by the speed penalty of the extra execl. Like you said, > Who cares for 500K? - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCzIlM84KuGfSFAYARAqMPAJ9C/kVp8Et5LbI+AUlJNhJiNn1ugwCgq/n0 TOrGzY/Pq5EOgUtknbVsSVM= =XH/t -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
