Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/09/22/16:02:39
On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 03:47:38PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 03:36:38PM -0400, Joe Smith wrote:
>>"Big Action" <joeasdf AT hotmail DOT com> wrote:
>>>Do I only need to replace the cygwin1.dll, or should I download and
>>>extract the entire "make install" tree?
>>
>>replace the cygwin1.dll I would recomend rebooting afterwards before
>>testing just to be sure everything is using the new version.
>
>You can't replace a running DLL so this should be unnecessary. If you
>can overwrite cygwin1.dll with a new version then you should be all set.
>If this wasn't the case, I'd be rebooting all day long.
I don't know if the above is clear or not but what I was trying to say was
that if anything else was using cygwin1.dll, you wouldn't be able to copy
over it. You *have* to stop all running cygwin processes before replacing
cygwin1.dll so, given that, there is no reason to reboot if you have
successfully managed to copy over, e.g., c:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll .
cgf
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