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Re: cygwin.com suggestions
Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
> At 02:58 PM 3/15/2002, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>
>>Robert Collins wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>2) Include in the FAQ (or somewhere) a section on "How to Safely Update the Cygwin dll". Probably just "shut down all cygwin apps, including daemons", but it would be useful to know for sure.
>>>>
>>>The next release of setup.exe automatically address's this and will
>>>replace in-use .dll's.
>>>
>>Really? How does it do that? Because I was under the impression that if a program was running you cannot replace it's .exe file (or .dll file) because it was opened exclusively by Windows. How do you get around that?
>
> Same way as Windows installers work. Just schedule the DLL to be moved in
> after reboot.
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.
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