Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: > At 02:58 PM 3/15/2002, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > >>Robert Collins wrote: >> >> >>>>2) Include in the FAQ (or somewhere) a section on "How to Safely Update the Cygwin >dll". Probably just "shut down all cygwin apps, including daemons", but it would be >useful to know for sure. >>>> >>>The next release of setup.exe automatically address's this and will >>>replace in-use .dll's. >>> >>Really? How does it do that? Because I was under the impression that if a program >was running you cannot replace it's .exe file (or .dll file) because it was opened >exclusively by Windows. How do you get around that? > > Same way as Windows installers work. Just schedule the DLL to be moved in > after reboot.
But that doesn't really replace the current DLL. IOW the changes are not effective until one reboots. Personally I find this a crummy way to do things but perhaps that's all that can be done. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
