cygwin.com suggestions
Christopher Faylor
cgf@redhat.com
Fri Mar 15 20:00:00 GMT 2002
On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 12:48:41PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Chris January [mailto:chris@atomice.net]
>> Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2002 10:34 AM
>
>> > But that doesn't really replace the current DLL. IOW the
>> changes are
>> > not effective until one reboots. Personally I find this a
>> crummy way to do things but perhaps that's all that can be done.
>
>> Under Win NT/2k/XP it is actually possible to replace a DLL
>> file that's currently in use without rebooting.
>No its not - a rename operation on a memorymapped file fails. It's under
>win16 *cough* win9x->Me that memorymapped files can be renamed or
>deleted.
It works fine on XP. I do it on an almost daily basis when I'm
installing new DLLs.
It worked fine on NT 4 and W2K, too.
I just verified this by doing the following command:
cd c:\cygwin\bin
mv cygwin1.dll cygwinfoo.dll
cgf
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