X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4550DBD5.52435DFF@dessent.net> Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 11:17:41 -0800 From: Brian Dessent X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: 1.5.19-4: sshd: "child_copy: linked dll data write copy failed" after computer reboot (Windows 2003 Server SP1) References: <200611071839 DOT kA7Id0mi023915 AT www DOT harkless DOT org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Dan Harkless wrote: > Does this mean setup.exe should be modified to do a rebaseall as the final > step of installation, so fresh installs of Cygwin won't be broken > out-of-the-box? This has been discussed in the past. It's not a good idea, because: - rebaseall is not always needed, only in certain combinations of circumstances, so doing it always is a waste of time/effort/extra step to go wrong. Most users will never need to do it. - rebaseall is kind of an ugly hack, a temporary crutch until such time as all maitainers have compiled their packages with -Wl,--enable-auto-image-base, then we could retire the notion of manually assigning base addesses after-the-fact. - rebaseall currently breaks the emacs package, if installed. - rebaseall requires that no files be in use, otherwise it aborts at the first DLL it cannot open for writing. Apparently the notion of stopping all Cygwin apps/services before running setup.exe is way beyond some people, so this would end up being yet another thing that trips them up. Brian -- 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/