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Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 16:58:02 -0500
From: "Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" <yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net>
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http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PPIOSPE !

On 2013-06-27 16:52, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> Once the relevant snapshot is released I will let you know how far I

The 20130627 snapshot is now available.

> get with a variant of the above I have thought of which is replacing
> cygwin1.dll on the fly when the individual step of the initial run of
> setup.exe that installs cygwin1.dll is completed.  That method takes
> advantage of the fact that the fork issue only occurs during the final
> step of the install and presumably nothing is using cygwin1.dll when
> the prior step that installs cygwin1.dll is completed.  So ideally
> this method would be completely error free, but I will see about that,
> and if not I will fall back to trying your method.

That might just work, if you get the timing right.


Yaakov


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