Re: MSYS2 mintty

On 31/03/13 18:46, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>> Yes I have working strace.
> So can you use it to determine why dash is causing uname an issue?  It
> seems strange that it works with bash and not dash.  Maybe the bad
> address is a direct result of some library used by one and not the
> other.

Just thinking aloud; the following may, or may not be relevant...

Perhaps I'm missing something, but IIRC Chuck built dash such that it 
explicitly would *not* link to msys-1.0.dll.  Doesn't uname require the 
uname() service provided by that very dll?  msys-1.0.dll would already 
be in memory, when running bash as shell, but not when running dash; is 
there some issue with uname loading msys-1.0.dll on demand, when it 
isn't already in core?

Rebase also doesn't require msys-1.0.dll; indeed, it *mustn't*; the 
primary reason for providing dash at all, is to permit rebase to be run, 
possibly via Bourne shell scripts, *without* loading msys-1.0.dll, so 
that msys-1.0.dll itself may be rebased.

-- 
Regards,
Keith.

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