X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <458F31B1.6050804@byu.net> Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 19:04:33 -0700 From: Eric Blake User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20061207 Thunderbird/1.5.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.4.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Updated cygwin dlls don't have the .dll extension; instead have .dll.new References: <458EE598.3010404@aim.com> In-Reply-To: <458EE598.3010404@aim.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Charli Li on 12/24/2006 1:39 PM: > Fishy enough, the new dlls had a filename extension of .dll.new Which means Windows is scheduled to rename it automatically at the next reboot, since it was in use at the time you ran setup.exe. Didn't you read the message box that setup told you to reboot? > Bottom line: Is this a problem with setup.exe? CCing to cygwin-apps as > well. No, this is not a setup bug, but a Windows limitation. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFjzGx84KuGfSFAYARAp5IAKC12A+llsJAB909Ij+btZFVoqxj/wCdHp5n QH1kCjBliDg4iYqFdbREnsA= =18Aq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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/