On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 02:20:41PM -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote: >On 12/31/2009 10:41 AM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: >> >> That means there is a process running besides rebaseall. rebaseall >> must be run from a dash shell with no other processes -- including >> services -- running. > >I started bash from the start menu and ran "exec dash". "ps ax" showed >no other cygwin processes, and sshd had been stopped. rebaseall >complained before I'd done those things but not after. > >I see now that "exec" doesn't do in cygwin what it does in Unix.
exec works like linux for everything but the first started cygwin prcess. If you're trying to rebase bash you really do need to start dash by itself. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
