RE: Perl Win32::Shortcut screws up fork

["Adye, TJ \(Tim\)" <T.J.Adye@rl.ac.uk>]

Answering my own question

> cygiconv-2.dll is used by bash, but rebaseall is a bash script.
> What can I do?

I found I could do this by saving the rebase command-line and file list
that rebaseall generates and then running the rebase command directly
from the DOS prompt. Now Perl's Win32::Shortcut and fork work together!
Thanks for the hint.

Nevertheless, there does seem to be a problem with the rebaseall.

Tim.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adye, TJ (Tim) 
> Sent: 07 July 2005 19:55
> To: 'Cygwin List'
> Subject: RE: Perl Win32::Shortcut screws up fork
> 
> Hi Larry,
> 
> Sorry, I assumed that the rebasing problem was ancient 
> history, since I hadn't encountered it for so long (and 
> remembered a long-ago comment about rebaseall being a 
> stop-gap measure). Thanks for putting me right.
> 
> Unfortunately I can't get rebaseall to work... running from a 
> bash prompt in a DOS box (as the docs tell me to), I get
> 
> % ps -a
>       PID    PPID    PGID     WINPID  TTY  UID    STIME COMMAND
>      1668       1    1668       1668    0 22534 19:36:55 /usr/bin/bash
>      1268    1668    1268       1800    0 22534 19:45:04 /usr/bin/ps
> % rebaseall
> ReBaseImage (/usr/bin/cygiconv-2.dll) failed with last error = 6
> 
> cygiconv-2.dll is used by bash, but rebaseall is a bash 
> script. What can I do?
> 
> Thanks,
> Tim.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Larry Hall
> > Sent: 07 July 2005 19:09
> > To: Adye, TJ (Tim); cygwin@cygwin.com
> > Subject: Re: Perl Win32::Shortcut screws up fork
> > 
> > At 01:10 PM 7/7/2005, you wrote:
> > >In an attempt to work round the problem with readshortcut 
> I reported
> > >earlier, I thought I'd use a Perl script. Unfortunately the
> > >Win32::Shortcut package seems to cause problems with 
> process forking
> > >(unlike the readshortcut error, this one isn't specific to 
> the latest
> > >cygwin DLL). I get an error
> > >
> > >C:\cygwin\bin\perl.exe (3088): *** unable to remap
> > >C:\cygwin\lib\perl5\vendor_perl\5.8\cygwin\auto\Win32\Shortcu
> > t\Shortcut.
> > >dll to same address as parent(0xBF0000) != 0x1110000
> > >     13 [main] perl 3716 fork_parent: child 3088 died 
> waiting for dll
> > >loading 
> > 
> > 
> > Sounds like a classic rebasing issue to me.  Have you tried running 
> > 'rebaseall'?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > --
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> > 

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