Re: Reboot vs. Restart Windows (was: latest iconv hangs)

2006-10-29 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Sun, 29 Oct 2006, Mike Maxwell wrote: > Brian Dessent wrote: > > > And if you close all running Cygwin apps and services as recommended, > > As you will have guessed from reading this far, I'm old enough that it's > quite possible my memory is fading. But I don't recall seeing any msg > from t

Reboot vs. Restart Windows (was: latest iconv hangs)

2006-10-29 Thread Mike Maxwell
This is my last posting on this. My suggestion is that the "reboot" message that appears sometimes when you update CygWin, and you have a CygWin process running, be changed to either "reboot Windows" or "restart Windows" (the latter is the preferred terminology in the Microsoft world, from wha

Re: latest iconv hangs

2006-10-29 Thread Brian Dessent
Mike Maxwell wrote: > I won't get into the linguistics of it, but I think "reboot" is a little > more ambiguous than that. It would be nice if it said "reboot Windows", > and such a change would be trivial to make. I thought of re-starting > CygWin as _rebooting_ CygWin, since once I exit CygWin

Re: latest iconv hangs

2006-10-28 Thread Mike Maxwell
Matt Wozniski wrote: That message tells you exactly what it means. I won't get into the linguistics of it, but I think "reboot" is a little more ambiguous than that. It would be nice if it said "reboot Windows", and such a change would be trivial to make. I thought of re-starting CygWin a

Re: latest iconv hangs

2006-10-28 Thread Matt Wozniski
That message tells you exactly what it means. You need to reboot because it is attempting to replace in-use DLLs, which Windows isn't good at. Long story short, it does it by telling Windows "Next time you start, please copy this file over that file before loading." Just restarting bash isn't e

Re: latest iconv hangs

2006-10-28 Thread Mike Maxwell
Charles Wilson wrote: Mike Maxwell wrote: Charles Wilson wrote: > Did setup.exe warn you to reboot? Yes, it did. I assumed that when it told me that, it just meant to close down the bash process(es) that I had opened, and start them again. I did that. Did it instead mean I was supposed t

Re: latest iconv hangs

2006-10-28 Thread Charles Wilson
Mike Maxwell wrote: I have used iconv for several years. I just updated my cygwin package last night, and now iconv hangs. That is, all the following commands hang: iconv -l iconv --list echo foo | iconv -f ISO-8859-1 - UTF-8 And it's a "hard hang", too: ^C won't stop it. I don't have any w

latest iconv hangs

2006-10-28 Thread Mike Maxwell
I have used iconv for several years. I just updated my cygwin package last night, and now iconv hangs. That is, all the following commands hang: iconv -l iconv --list echo foo | iconv -f ISO-8859-1 - UTF-8 And it's a "hard hang", too: ^C won't stop it. I don't have any way to get a version n