concurrent use of cygwin1.dll for 1.5 & 1.7 ??

[Dave Korn]

Paul McFerrin wrote:
> While installing cygwin1.7 into another node (cygwinII), I'm wondering
> if there are problems with BOTH 1.5 and 1.7 cygwin1.dll (in different
> directories) being loaded at the same time?  I keep running into errors
> as such: *** fatal error - system shared memory version mismatch detected
> 
> The 1.5 version is loaded in production while I like to run the 1.7
> version to do some testing
> 
> I think I know the answer:  DON'T DO DADT!!

  Errr no actually, that's supposed to work, and I do it regularly.  Is it
possible you left something running during the upgrade?  Have you rebooted since?

    cheers,
      DaveK

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