Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Subject: RE: cygwin.com suggestions X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.5762.3 Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 12:48:41 +1100 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: cygwin.com suggestions Thread-Index: AcHMeZnkM6zzdsdDSImB15Zk3navPwAEuByQ From: "Robert Collins" To: "Chris January" , Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id g2G1n4T31103 > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris January [mailto:chris@atomice.net] > Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2002 10:34 AM > > But that doesn't really replace the current DLL. IOW the > changes are > > not effective until one reboots. Personally I find this a > crummy way to do things but perhaps that's all that can be done. > Under Win NT/2k/XP it is actually possible to replace a DLL > file that's currently in use without rebooting. No its not - a rename operation on a memorymapped file fails. It's under win16 *cough* win9x->Me that memorymapped files can be renamed or deleted. Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/