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Date:	Thu, 5 Aug 1999 17:59:04 -0400
From:	Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
To:	Corinna Vinschen <corinna AT vinschen DOT de>
Cc:	cygdev <cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>,
	"Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject:	Re: ntsec: patch 9
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In-Reply-To:	<37AA044E.C6095286@vinschen.de>; from Corinna Vinschen on Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 11:38:22PM +0200

On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 11:38:22PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>The answer is definitely 'no'. In my environments on every computer cygwin1.dll
>is in /usr/bin directory. If I test new dlls, I rename the old one to e.g
>cygwin1.dllX and copy the new one again to /usr/bin. With this method, I don't
>have evil surprises. Moreover I have explicitly checked it by running `find'.

Thanks.  I was 99% sure that this was the case.

>I know, it's not the answer, you like to get :-(

How dare you.  :-)

>Should we (Larry and me) try it without the aforementioned detection code?
>If so, how can I disable it?

The only way to do it is to back out the patch.  I really can't see how *that*
particular patch could have that particular problem.

Hmm.  I wonder if something changed in newlib.

cgf

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