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Re: cygwin.com suggestions
On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 04:30:06PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
>I'd rather be _real_ simple about it. I.e. Offer a choice: reboot
>after the install or close app foo now. The user does one or the
>other, not a hybrid (close app foo after the install).
I think those are the only sane choices, actually, since replacing a
cygwin DLL while it is in use will potentially have disastrous
consequences. You might be able to get away with doing it with
something like bash, but even that is a potential problem.
>Of course, a patch to do it will be treated very differently to ideas
>:}.
Hmm. I like the sound of that.
cgf
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