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RE: xfree86 install makes wininit not working
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- To: "Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>,"Ilya Goldin" <goldin+ at pitt dot edu>,<cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 09:23:37 +1000
- Subject: RE: xfree86 install makes wininit not working
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harold Hunt [mailto:huntharo@msu.edu]
> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 5:15 AM
> Robert may want to comment on whether this method is used or
> not in setup.exe.
It is. Long file names are used there as well. Works like a dream.
> 2) Attempt to move each file individually; upon failure, add
This is what we do. If an app is performing open-read-close on lots of
small files and we collide, well uhmm, oops.
> I'm guessing that Cygwin's setup.exe uses a method similar to
> the method I described in (1), but I'll wait for Robert to
> comment on this. Perhaps Cygwin's setup.exe should consider
> using a method similar to (2), if it doesn't already.
>
> In related news: I think I'm going to hold off on making any
> wide-spread announcements about Cygwin/XFree86 being
> available via setup.exe. I'm not comfortable with the
> installation process causing several minute delays in
> starting the PC and in the possibility of the wininit.ini
> becoming too large or not preserving long filenames.
Ok. I'm not sure what we can do about it on win9x though. Maybe we just
want to fail noisily?
Rob