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Re: Need name and functionality suggestions for a new utility
Hi!
Wednesday, 24 October, 2001 Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com wrote:
CF> On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 01:18:22AM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
>>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>Does anyone have an idea for a name? Or even an idea for more
>>>functionality for this utility? Now that I think of it, this utility
>>>should also change the shared memory id
>>
>>Can you DO that without adding hooks to cygwin1.dll?
CF> No. You need to add some hooks. The cygheap changes that I made a while
CF> ago make this very easy, though.
does your tweak works in such scenario?
"cygwin-app-1" starts "non-cygwin-app-2" and it starts "cygwin-app-3"
will cygwin-app-3 be properly "jailed"?
i was supposing to write a patch to add (ahem) yet another CYGWIN env
variable option so one can write, e.g.
'set CYGWIN=profile:old_install'
CF> I had the hooks written and cygwin compiled. Then, sending this email
CF> started a whole flood of new ideas about what needed to be changed.
CF> I think it might just be possible to allow two different cygwins to
CF> coexist without this as long as they share the mount table. I don't
CF> know if that's a good thing or not.
CF> It means that instead of getting "shared memory mismatch" we'll be hearing
CF> about how the new version of cygwin doesn't fix their problems -- because
CF> they still have a cygwin1.dll in their windows/system directory.
this can be easily revealed by cygcheck.
CF> Hmm. Maybe I should make cygwin1.dll complain if it is placed in the
CF> windows/system directory.
and this too.
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