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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT syncretize DOT net>
To: "'Conrad Scott'" <Conrad DOT Scott AT dsl DOT pipex DOT com>,
   "'Charles Wilson'" <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
Cc: <cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: System-wide mutexes and pthreads
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 00:23:23 +1000
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-developers-owner AT cygwin DOT com 
> [mailto:cygwin-developers-owner AT cygwin DOT com] On Behalf Of Conrad Scott
> Sent: Thursday, 13 June 2002 8:51 AM

> My only thought on this was that not depending on the cygwin 
> dll might give
> us the flexibility if we wanted cygserver to be started 
> before any cygwin
> processes (and it can't start before itself . . .). Then again I can't
> imagine what sort of requirement there might be for that.

I can't either. Lets cross that bridge IFF we need to. We can always
copy out any cygwin core code that's needed.
 
> More pertinently we should think about making sure that at 
> least some things
> work if the daemon is killed and re-started while there are 
> cygwin programs
> running. But I don't think that's an immediate concern.

This is orthogonal: whether cygserver uses cygwin1.dll or not, killing
cygserver will affect all other cygwin process in the same fashion.

Rob