On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 12:48:41PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Chris January [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2002 10:34 AM > >> > 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. > >> Under Win NT/2k/XP it is actually possible to replace a DLL >> file that's currently in use without rebooting. >No its not - a rename operation on a memorymapped file fails. It's under >win16 *cough* win9x->Me that memorymapped files can be renamed or >deleted.
It works fine on XP. I do it on an almost daily basis when I'm installing new DLLs. It worked fine on NT 4 and W2K, too. I just verified this by doing the following command: cd c:\cygwin\bin mv cygwin1.dll cygwinfoo.dll cgf -- 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/
