Win32 error 487 and rebaseall

Tue Jul 4 14:08:00 GMT 2006

On Jul 4 16:00, Cliff Stanford wrote:
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>> Thought it was worth reporting my experience today back to this list.
>> These "Win32 error 487" messages were getting worse and worse to the
> point that it was becoming impossible to start Xwin and run an xterm.
>> Searching back through the list I found
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-09/msg00919.html where John Wei
> makes a reference to rebaseall.
>> Unfortunately, /bin/rebaseall fails to execute on the current release of
> cygwin (1.5.20-1) because of the following line:
>> grep -q -i -v '/ash$' /proc/[0-9]*/exename
>> It is supposed to ensure that only ash is running. The problem is that
> cat /proc/[0-9]*/exename produces:
>> /usr/bin/ash.exe
>> Thus the script needs to be modified to say:
>> grep -q -i -v '/ash\.exe$' /proc/[0-9]*/exename

The script should be modified to allow both variations, with and without
.exe suffix. The reason is that the suffix disappears again when using
the experimental CYGWIN=transparent_exe option, which might become not
so experimental at one point in an only vaguely defined future...
Corinna
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