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Re: Which DLL should be active?
- From: "Elfyn McBratney" <emcb_exposure at hotmail dot com>
- To: <cbfalconer at worldnet dot att dot net>
- Cc: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 17:19:44 +0100
- Subject: Re: Which DLL should be active?
- References: <3DB02FD1.AF3CE58@yahoo.com>
When you run setup and install a new copy of the dll, and the dll is in use
it doesn't place the new dll in the dir (c:\cygwin\bin for ex.). Instead it
calls it dllname.dll.new, and replaces the files when you next reboot your
machine.
Elfyn
----- Original Message -----
From: CBFalconer <cbfalconer@yahoo.com>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 4:59 PM
Subject: Which DLL should be active?
> I recently did a download and install while a cygwin bash window
> was open. I now find the following files present:
>
> [2] c:\cygwin>dir bin\cygwin1.dll*
>
> Volume in drive C is WD30-PRI41 Serial number is 3CE4:239B
> Directory of C:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll*
>
> 7-06-02 2:19 904,008 cygwin1.dll
> 10-13-02 23:16 926,024 cygwin1.dll.new
> 1,830,032 bytes in 2 files and 0 dirs
>
> The question is: should the older dll be discarded and replaced
> with the new? My original install was done on 2002-10-11.
>
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