> I've succesfully ported dpkg. In a few weeks time, I'll start working on
> my Debian Cygwin project again, I'm currently busy with other things -
> but maybe you could take a look at my dpkg changes and see if you can
> make a Cygwin-dpkg which is compatible with cygcheck and setup.exe. Dpkg
On Mar 9 19:08, Sjors Gielen wrote:
> I think I checked how Cygwin implements fork() a while ago, can't really
> remember though. But on a fork(), do processes inherit all information
> on dll's, et cetera? Or do they reload the dll and re-check the
> addresses of entry points and all?
Very
Christopher Faylor schreef:
Right. And that has been the main reason why writing an installer which
uses Cygwin is problematic.
I've been using the "rename the dll or executable" technique for about ten
years to install a newly-compiled version of cygwin1.dll on a system with
a running version
On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 11:21:52AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Mar 9 09:55, Andy Koppe wrote:
>> Spiro Trikaliotis:
>> > You can replace a running exe (or dll) by doing the following:
>> >
>> > 1. rename the .DLL or .EXE
>>
>> Are you sure that's possible? I'd expect Windows to complain lo
On Mar 9 10:18, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> --- Lun 9/3/09, Andy Koppe ha scritto:
> > Are you sure that's possible? I'd expect Windows to
> > complain loudly at
> > that point.
> > [...]
> I also used that trick to replace cyglsa.dll installing
> snapshots but cyglsa.dll was not in use at that time.
I
On Mar 9 09:55, Andy Koppe wrote:
> Spiro Trikaliotis:
> > You can replace a running exe (or dll) by doing the following:
> >
> > 1. rename the .DLL or .EXE
>
> Are you sure that's possible? I'd expect Windows to complain loudly at
> that point.
You can in theory, but that won't work reliably fo
--- Lun 9/3/09, Andy Koppe ha scritto:
> Da: Andy Koppe
> Oggetto: Re: Replacing setup.exe and cygcheck with dpkg (Was: Re: cygcheck
> typo in both manpage and --help)
> A: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Data: Lunedì 9 marzo 2009, 10:55
> Spiro Trikaliotis:
> > You can replace a
Spiro Trikaliotis:
> You can replace a running exe (or dll) by doing the following:
>
> 1. rename the .DLL or .EXE
Are you sure that's possible? I'd expect Windows to complain loudly at
that point.
Andy
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* On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 09:45:39PM -0400 Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 12:42:31AM +0100, Sjors Gielen wrote:
> > (Since 1.7 already fixes the problem of installing running programs,
>
> Color me dubious. How did you solve the problem of installing cygwin over
> a r
On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 12:42:31AM +0100, Sjors Gielen wrote:
> Christopher Faylor schreef:
>>> setup.exe and cygcheck are very nice but was wondering if the idea of
>>> using
>>> yum and rpm was ever tossed around?
>> Yes, it has been discussed many times. There are big barriers to
>> getting th
Christopher Faylor schreef:
setup.exe and cygcheck are very nice but was wondering if the idea of using
yum and rpm was ever tossed around?
Yes, it has been discussed many times. There are big barriers to
getting these working, mainly due to problems installing already-running
programs.
cgf
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