X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 10:14:45 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin 1.7 domains and home directories Message-ID: <20081217091445.GA30479@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <9f3df1acecdb14494f593ecc70fc8f0f.squirrel@mail.morrison.mine.nu> <320dd8ef673c228602ed985bbd1fdfd7.squirrel@mail.morrison.mine.nu> <20081212144130.GC32197@calimero.vinschen.de> <20081216120931.GF6830@calimero.vinschen.de> <961c6436d648ea13a8bb6b27cc7f6df4.squirrel@mail.morrison.mine.nu> <20081216160610.GJ6830@calimero.vinschen.de> <487d2ece1e16c7f45d2f045ba920cbe9.squirrel@mail.morrison.mine.nu> <20081216181035.GA27099@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Dec 17 08:44, John Morrison wrote: > On Tue, December 16, 2008 6:10 pm, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > >>I'm *sure* I've seen it without having to reboot. Are you planning > >>another release of the dll soon(ish)? Does cygwin do anything if/when it > >>detects that the dll has changed? I've tried 'touch'ing it, that didn't > >>trigger anything. > > > > If you want to update just the DLL you could always try a snapshot: > > > > http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ > > Hum, thanks Christopher, I always forget about the snapshots. Do you know > if there's any code in the main dll which detects/does something when it's > changed? There is no such code. There's only code to detect if another Cygwin version is running already. This doesn't apply for the step from 1.5x. to 1.7.x, though since all global synchronization objects have changed. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/