X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4544242D.7040706@umiacs.umd.edu> Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 23:46:53 -0400 From: Mike Maxwell User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: latest iconv hangs References: <4543C9A3.3000701@umiacs.umd.edu> <454416AA.9080205@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <4544180A.5030200@umiacs.umd.edu> <454418B2.7080107@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <45441EC9.7070506@umiacs.umd.edu> <17393e3e0610282033p42489855ia8f6c4a287a60627@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <17393e3e0610282033p42489855ia8f6c4a287a60627@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Matt Wozniski wrote: > That message tells you exactly what it means. I won't get into the linguistics of it, but I think "reboot" is a little more ambiguous than that. It would be nice if it said "reboot Windows", and such a change would be trivial to make. I thought of re-starting CygWin as _rebooting_ CygWin, since once I exit CygWin, I would not have thought that anything belonging to it--in particular, any DLLs--would still be in memory; and it goes through all my startup files, too. Obviously I'm wrong, but I'll bet I'm not the only person who ever thought this. And while it used to be quite common for updates to applications to tell you you had to restart Windows, I don't recall any other programs running under Windows XP, with the exception of some that affect Windows itself (like Internet Explorer), and anti-virus programs, that require you to reboot Windows XP. I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure it's less common these days. Which is another reason I didn't expect to have to reboot Windows for a CygWin update. (When Windows needs to restart because of an update to itself, the messsage is "restart Windows" and it offers to do so then and there.) -- Mike Maxwell maxwell@umiacs.umd.edu -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/