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Re: Updated cygwin dlls cause unnecessary reboot on NT
On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 01:12:30AM -0500, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>On 12/25/2006, Linda Walsh wrote:
>>FWIW, I have replaced the libs like cygwin1.dll, cygintl?.dll... and
>>such while cygwin is running and not had a catastrophe as one might
>>have trying to overwrite/update the memory image of a kernel
>>dynamically, so I don't think it's quite all the end of the world you
>>make it out to be. But I admit it doesn't sound clean.
>
>It's more than that regardless of your (lucky) experiences. It is that
>way for a reason, whether or not you know or understand it. However,
>if your short-cut works well for you in your usage, more power to you.
>It can't be advocated as a general solution for cygwin1.dll though.
>
>It's also worthwhile to note that the Cygwin web site still states that
>"The Cygwin DLL works with all non-beta, non "release candidate", ix86
>32 bit versions of Windows since Windows 95, with the exception of
>Windows CE." So regardless of how XP and later platforms may handle DLL
>replacements, 'setup.exe' still needs to handle the cases prior to the
>more advanced techniques you mention. For now, that means 'setup.exe'
>works as it always has, until someone offers a patch to make it more
>discriminating. That someone could be you! ;-)
Such an optimist...
cgf
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