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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?




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