Extend faq.using to discuss fork failures

[Ryan Johnson]

On 19/08/2011 12:24 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 12:21:17PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 06:13:22PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> On Aug 19 12:01, Ryan Johnson wrote:
>>>> BTW, I hope that rebasing wouldn't require every invocation of
>>>> setup.exe to shut down all cygwin processes... I really like how
>>>> right now I can pull new packages some configure script needs,
>>>> without having to shut down 4-5 sessions of emacs.
>>> Seriously, you could propose a patch to rebase, which leaves blocked
>>> DLLs alone and only tries to rebase the colliding ones, if any.  Plus a
>>> patch to rebaseall to add a flag
>>> "--don't-test-for-ash-only-just-ignore-what-you-can't-change".  Well, a
>>> single char option might be better...
>>>
>>> The rebase sources are available by CVS:
>>>
>>>   $ cvs -d "pserver:anoncvs@sourceware.org:/cvs/cygwin-apps co rebase
>>>
>>> Send patches to the cygwin-apps list.
>> As I mentioned in cygwin-apps, I think a --backup option of some kind
>> would be useful so you could restore to a previous state.
>>
>> Why won't anyone implement my idea????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!
>                                                                 !!!!!
No doubt those last five bangs will mark the tipping point for somebody 
who's teetering on the edge of volunteering >;)

Unfortunately my semester is about to start and free time will be a 
luxury for the next four months.

Ryan