On Jan 9 23:28, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 11:09:41AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >The most pressing problem is the replacement of the cygwin DLL itself. > >It's like installing a new kernel in Linux. However, in Linux you have > >to reboot to use the new kernel, while Cygwin is just a DLL. After the > >rename and replace operation, existing processes will use the old DLL > >while new processes will use the new DLL. This is bound to break and > >there's no clean way to do it, except to replace the Cygwin DLL while > >no other Cygwin process is running. > > In other words, the problem which has always been the problem is still > the problem.
A fair summary. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple