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Subject:	Re: Cygwin service fails to start because of duplicate dll
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On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 02:23:15PM -0400, Stephen Wilkinson wrote:
>In case anyone else encounters problems starting services because of
>duplicate cygwin1.dll on the path, here is how I found out that the
>duplicate was the problem and the workaround I use:

This is covered in the FAQ:
http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.multiple-copies

Looks like you were the victim of a 3PP:
http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#3PP

cgf

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