Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Path: not-for-mail From: Andrew DeFaria Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin Subject: Re: cygwin.com suggestions Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 15:05:58 -0800 Lines: 21 Message-ID: <3C927E56.2060909@Salira.com> References: <4.3.1.2.20020315150903.0169bc60@pop.ma.ultranet.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.184.204.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1016233595 31053 206.184.204.2 (15 Mar 2002 23:06:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 23:06:35 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011019 Netscape6/6.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us 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. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/