Re: Updated cygwin dlls cause unnecessary reboot on NT

Eric Blake wrote: This part peaks my curiosity. Now I'm not a kernel guy however as you state fork currently knows which dlls to load for the child by name. While that makes sense on the outside what if it knew which dlls to load by number - by open file descriptor number that is? If only Windo

Re: Updated cygwin dlls cause unnecessary reboot on NT

On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 10:18:37PM -0700, Eric Blake wrote: >> Another question, how is this not a problem for Unix's fork()? Does >> Unix's fork also do this by name? Or does it use another mechanism? > >Unix's fork is provided natively by the kernel, using copy-on-write >semantics. It is an enti

Re: Updated cygwin dlls cause unnecessary reboot on NT

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Andrew DeFaria on 12/27/2006 7:17 PM: > Eric Blake wrote: >> Actually, you are. The ONLY way to make renaming in-use .dlls work is >> to make fork() aware of the rename. The way fork() works is that it >> must reload the same .dll as the

Re: cygwin tar -M breaks

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I read the list for a reason. http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PPIOSPE - redirecting to the cygwin list According to Alexy Khrabrov on 12/27/2006 8:45 PM: > Hi Eric -- I'm trying to write multi-volume tar archives on cygwin, > using the new 1.16 -F script

Re: Updated cygwin dlls cause unnecessary reboot on NT

On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 08:22:50PM -0600, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 07:17:47PM -0600, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >>>Igor Peshansky wrote: Open-source works by scratching your itch, not by getting someone else to scratch it for you. >>>Actually ge

Re: Updated cygwin dlls cause unnecessary reboot on NT

Andrew DeFaria wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 07:17:47PM -0600, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Igor Peshansky wrote: Open-source works by scratching your itch, not by getting someone else to scratch it for you. Actually getting someone else to scratch that itch sometimes does

Re: Updated cygwin dlls cause unnecessary reboot on NT

Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 07:17:47PM -0600, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Igor Peshansky wrote: Open-source works by scratching your itch, not by getting someone else to scratch it for you. Actually getting someone else to scratch that itch sometimes does work! Right! And, the

Re: Updated cygwin dlls cause unnecessary reboot on NT

Eric Blake wrote: Actually, you are. The ONLY way to make renaming in-use .dlls work is to make fork() aware of the rename. The way fork() works is that it must reload the same .dll as the parent process had loaded, and it currently does this BY NAME. In other words, changing the name of an i

Re: Updated cygwin dlls cause unnecessary reboot on NT

Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 07:17:47PM -0600, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Igor Peshansky wrote: Open-source works by scratching your itch, not by getting someone else to scratch it for you. Actually getting someone else to scratch that itch sometimes does work! Right! And, th

Re: Updated cygwin dlls cause unnecessary reboot on NT

On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 07:17:47PM -0600, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >Igor Peshansky wrote: >>Open-source works by scratching your itch, not by getting someone else >>to scratch it for you. > >Actually getting someone else to scratch that itch sometimes does work! Right! And, the perfect way to have th

Re: Updated cygwin dlls cause unnecessary reboot on NT

Igor Peshansky wrote: Open-source works by scratching your itch, not by getting someone else to scratch it for you. Actually getting someone else to scratch that itch sometimes does work! :-P -- Andrew DeFaria Never wrestle with a pig. You both get dirty and the pig likes i

Re: Updated cygwin dlls cause unnecessary reboot on NT

Linda Walsh tlinx.org> writes: > > Linda, I think we've reach this point here, unless you're willing to try > > to understand why "fork()" is important to Cygwin. > --- > I am aware of why "fork" is important. Apparently, there is > some impression that I am trying to change fork? I'm not >

Re: Updated cygwin dlls cause unnecessary reboot on NT

Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: This can be true. However, to do this effectively, one has to listen and learn as well. Simply restating a point you've made before, if it hasn't already been agreed to, does less to convince and more to polarize. If your points aren't agreed upon by the people you'r

rpm-build-4.1-1 incompatible with tar-1.16.1-1

Hi all, I'm using rpmbuild to build a RPM package from a tarball but it doesn't work: $ rpmbuild -ta SOURCES/daco-0.tar.gz error: Failed to rename /home/eeto003/SPECS/rpm-spec.LpULlm to /home/dick/SPECS/tar: Pattern matching characters used in file names. Please,: m It seems like tar needs the -