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Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 20:55:00 -0400
From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Question of the necessity of rebaseall
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Lenik wrote:
> Imagebase in PE header is something a bit of optional, that means if two 
> dlls with same imagebase, the OS kernel will automaticly relocate one of 
> them, to put them in different virtual spaces. So, rebase should be a 
> utility for optimizing the overall start-up speed, to reduce avoidable 
> relocations, rather then fix start-up errors.
> 
> Any idea?

cygwin1.dll cannot be relocated if the fork semantics are to work.  So
while what you say above is true for apps in general, it's not true for
Cygwin apps.

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A: Yes.
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