X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 19:40:59 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [1.7.0-40] parallel (multiple) instances of version 1.7 Message-ID: <20090216184059.GO5416@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <1234807712.31245.ezmlm@cygwin.com> <14DB9679B2E84A88B49F462DF5ADB18F@pc13> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <14DB9679B2E84A88B49F462DF5ADB18F@pc13> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) 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 Feb 16 19:22, Pascal Favre wrote: > Hello > > The latest discussion about parallel instances are dated back to april 2008, discussing parallel instances of 1.5 and 1.7, not > multiple instances of 1.7 > > I noticed when having parallel instances of 1.7 the first startet instances sets the base in /etc/fstab. All further startups (bash) > of different cygwin installations use the first installation as their base. > > Is it possible to have parallel instances of 1.7 ? The 1.7 version changed the way the global objects are created but there was never planned to have multiple version of 1.7. Even though you can use a 1.5 and a 1.7 install and run in parallel, the "there must be only one Cygwin running" rule applies. 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/