Well, I thought of that - first rule of debugging, calculatus eliminatus. I tried it; but, attempts to use the older DLLs with newer apps (or vice-versa) result in corrupted shared memory, and force me to reboot my WinXP box. I've been under the impression that cygwin1.dll isn't really meant to be cross-compatible with applications built against other versions of Cygwin, which would probably make the search useless. If anyone knows otherwise, I'm keen to hear anything about cygwin1.dll-swapping that could be of use - i.e. how far back I could go and expect to retain binary compatibility.
Of course, I could always reinstall the older versions complete from scratch, but if I did that, I'd need to find archives of the older Cygwins, and I'd probably use a different PC, as I spent a lot of time configuring this one and I don't really want to blow Cygwin away if I can help it. I was kind of hoping someone here might have some idea what was going on with the internals of Cygwin/WinXP that might provide a more direct approach at solving the problem. But if it comes to that, then yes, I could try it. - Jonathan Lanier -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matthew Woehlke Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 12:53 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 1.5.21-1: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin Jonathan Lanier wrote: > Also, because (I know the FAQ > says not to say this, but I think it's useful information in this > case) we have a much older version of Cygwin (cygcheck reports > v1.5.14) that works flawlessly with CIFS and does not suffer the same > problems. So, at the very least, it appears that something changed in > Cygwin that is now exposing the undesired behavior. This should be screaming "way to narrow down the problem" at you; IOW you should try your test with various versions of cygwin1.dll, doing a binary search, until you have a more specific idea of when the behavior "broke". -- Matthew Only Joe suffers from schizophrenia. The rest of us enjoy it. -- 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/ -- 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/
