X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SARE_MSGID_LONG45,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <4BB29285.4010701@gmail.com> <20100331042545.GA23824@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <4BB3F897.7090306@gmail.com> <4BBD42BC.4050404@gmail.com> <20100408061139.GA27780@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 08:17:25 -0400 Received: by 10.229.212.213 with SMTP id gt21mr111970qcb.2.1270729045625; Thu, 08 Apr 2010 05:17:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Subject: Re: git on cygwin 1.7.2/1.7.4 From: Mark Levedahl To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:14 AM, Matthias Andree wrote: > Am 08.04.2010, 08:11 Uhr, schrieb Christopher Faylor: > > Not to suggest anything particular to Mark, but rather as a general comment: > I wonder how many of the "1.7.X no better" can be attributed to the > replace-on-reboot failure up to and including setup 2.693. If people rely on > that rather than running "uname -a" or similar, those that were told to > reboot may be unaware they're using the older version. > > -- When doing my testing, I explictly stopped all cygwin processes, copied whichever cygwin1.dll (1.7.2, .3, .4, snapshot) I wished to test into /bin (and Windows is very good about complaining when a cygwin process is still running when trying to overwrite the dll), fired up a shell, ran "uname -a" to assure I had what I thought I had. So, I am quite sure of what I was running. Mark -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple