Questions about windows support

[Juan Manuel Cabo]

> That is so COOL!! I remember f*cking up one of my first linux computers
> that way. If I had known, I wouldn't have to go back to reinstall the
> many diskettes of slackware (no live cds at that time!, no easy way
> to fix the fs).

What happened was (If I remember correctly) that I renamed the /lib directory.
(PLEASE DON'T TRY THAT AT HOME!!)

Again, this:

>> In the end I had to use
>> bash's built-in echo command to recreate a statically-linked busybox
>> binary via copy-n-pasting over the terminal,

is so cool!!

--jm


On 02/20/2012 11:56 PM, Juan Manuel Cabo wrote:
> On 02/20/2012 11:06 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 02:00:20AM +0100, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>> ...
>> Yeah I remember that. I thought they've since fixed it, though. That's
>> more a bash limitation than anything, AFAIK. Besides, what *were* you
>> trying to do with such a long command-line anyway? :-)
>> ...
> 
> I can think of one case where the command line argument limit
> is a problem: copying or moving files from a huge directory.
>   In that case, to do it with bash, there is no other way around
> but to do things such as iterate over the alphabet to copy the files that
> start with 'a', then the ones with 'b'..
> 
> 
>> ...
>> But then again, I *did* also have to deal with having to repair a remote
>> Linux server whose dynamic linker broke, causing basic commands like ls,
>> cp, chmod, to be completely non-functional. In fact, *nothing* worked
>> except that last remote login running bash. In the end I had to use
>> bash's built-in echo command to recreate a statically-linked busybox
>> binary via copy-n-pasting over the terminal, in order to get things back
>> into working condition again. (Yeah. Definitely not for the faint of
>> heart.)
>> ...
>>
>> T
>>
> 
> That is so COOL!! I remember f*cking up one of my first linux computers
> that way. If I had known, I wouldn't have to go back to reinstall the
> many diskettes of slackware (no live cds at that time!, no easy way
> to fix the fs).
> 
> --jm
>