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Re: Update problems


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

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