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Subject:	Re: document side effects of incomplete implementations in regtool and cyglsa-config, suggest a manual restore procedure
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On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 11:55:22AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>Here's another idea.  Since you're the one having the problem and
>being able to reproduce it, why don't you fix the cyglsa-config
>script instead to recognize this situation and handle it gracefully?
>That would be much more helpful than a longish paragraph explaining
>what could go wrong if it goes wrong.

Big ditto.

cgf

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