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Subject:	RE: [BUG] cygwin-1.3.3-2 -- making auto-import dlls
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Date:	Wed, 19 Sep 2001 12:44:45 +1000
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From:	"Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf AT redhat DOT com]
>
> >Solution: don't use auto-image-base. The overhead from relocation is
> >quite low, why not let windows just do its thing.
> 
> Even that is not guaranteed to fix this problem, though.
> 
> Location of the cygwin heap is one of a few AFAIK inavoidable iffy
> assumptions that cygwin makes.  Cygwin's whole fork algorithm relies
> on similar undocumented deterministic behavior.
> 

Very true. The only *solution* is to ahve _every_ cygwin program depend
on all the .dlls that every other cygwin program does, in the same
order. Short of that happenning though :}....


Rob

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