[BUG] cygwin-1.3.3-2 -- making auto-import dlls

Robert Collins robert.collins@itdomain.com.au
Tue Sep 18 19:35:00 GMT 2001


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Faylor [ mailto:cgf@redhat.com ]
>
> >Solution: don't use auto-image-base. The overhead from relocation is
> >quite low, why not let windows just do its thing.
> 
> Even that is not guaranteed to fix this problem, though.
> 
> Location of the cygwin heap is one of a few AFAIK inavoidable iffy
> assumptions that cygwin makes.  Cygwin's whole fork algorithm relies
> on similar undocumented deterministic behavior.
> 

Very true. The only *solution* is to ahve _every_ cygwin program depend
on all the .dlls that every other cygwin program does, in the same
order. Short of that happenning though :}....


Rob

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