Avoid collisions between parallel installations of Cygwin

[Dave Korn]

Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> I think you're making this too complicated, really.  If I have to
> tweak the DLL in any binary fashion, it does not the least matter
> at which point in the binary blob the data is.  And the advantage of
> using a global structure with defined, *simple* content should be quite
> clear, compared to some resource layout which is not exactly under
> our control.

  But you can put any arbitrary binary blob into a resource, including your
struct, and edit-it-in place there, can't you?

    cheers,
      DaveK