RE: note about recent cygwin snapshot

[Brian Ford <ford at vss dot fsi dot com>]

On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Eric I. Arnoth wrote:

> I ran the cygwin setup.exe to install inet_utils, and found that a good
> number of cygwin apps got upgraded without my asking it to.
>
The "default" option in setup means "upgrade it if I already have it and
it is out-of-date."  So, maybe you asked for it but didn't know it?

> I then found every Cygwin app calling the error
>
> "main] ? 2988 shared_info::initialize: size of shared memory region
> >changed from 21008 to 47112"
>
Did setup ask you to reboot?  Try it.  Your problem may then disappear :).

> After some judicious Googling, I found the following message explaining the
> problem as running two different versions of Cygwin at the same time:
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-01/msg00436.html
>
Good man.

> My only question is, how do I remedy this?
>
Simple.  Try the above first.  If that doesn't work, search your entire
hard drive[s] for cygwin1.dll, and remove the one that is not in \bin.

> Do I need to uninstall and reinstall everything?
>
Nope.

> Is there a quick & easy way to clean this up wtihout such a major overhaul?
>
Yep.  See above.

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