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Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 02:54:20 -0700
From: Brian Dessent <brian@dessent.net>
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Subject: Re: cygwinb19.dll
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Lapo Luchini wrote:

> Let's just say that version b19 is "very very very very old" and,
> indeed, obsolete...
> But anyway the new tools shouldn't have problems if a DLL *with a
> different name* is found in the system.
> 
> BT:W notcie that my answer is not authoritative, only CGF and a few of
> other can give those...

If they both try to use some other resource (such as shared memory or a
named pipe or something) that have the same name it'll die a horrible
death.  

The obvious thing would be to try to recompile the app with a recent
build of Cygwin... it should be open source unless they bought a buy-out
license from Redhat, right?

Brian

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