Re: FYI: Reboot is needed after a failed setup.

[Reini Urban <rurban at x-ray dot at>]

Christopher Faylor schrieb:
> On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 07:45:09PM +0100, Reini Urban wrote:
> > > This would solve similar problems involving other dlls too.
> >
> > Are you sure?  Other dll's will never get deleted.  I believe only
> > cygwin needs this special logic.
>
> Why wouldn't other DLLs get deleted?

"dll hell"
setup.exe has a special logic not to delete old dll's, as I was told by 
Charles in http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2004-09/msg00331.html

I personally didn't see so far where this magic should happen in 
setup.exe. I only see
cygpackage.cc:150
  io_stream::remove (String("cygfile:///etc/setup/") + name + ".lst.gz");
and no special check in io_stream::remove.

Charles? Where and how does this "GREAT PAIN" happen to keep old 
compatibility DLLs around?
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