Re: [PATCH] bootstrap: add bootstrap_sync option.

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Joel E. Denny wrote on Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 03:56:49PM CET:
> On Sat, 20 Nov 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> 
> > > 1. If someone does "bash bootstrap", I'm not sure how to detect that in 
> > > order to do it again in the exec.
> > 
> > Yep, sounds like a problem.  How about honoring $CONFIG_SHELL if that is
> > set?
> 
> Ok, is the following patch what you had in mind?

I think so, yes, but let the bootstrap authors have their say please.
Can you test this on MSYS or on an NFS mount with, say, Solaris or so?

> Inspired by gnulib-tool's --no-reexec, I also added --no-bootstrap-sync on 
> the exec just in case it might help avoid an infinite loop or fork bomb in 
> some strange case we haven't thought of.

Good idea.

Thanks,
Ralf