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Re: Avoid collisions between parallel installations of Cygwin


On Oct 16 13:31, Dave Korn wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
> > I'm just experimenting with them using Chuck's example code as base. 
> > Apparantly you can't change your own executable with these calls.  If you
> > try, you get an ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED from EndUpdateResource.
> 
>   Well I guess that's to be expected, the old replace-in-use problem.

Which probably also means the tool which changes the Cygwin resource
setting has to be a non-Cygwin tool.  Cygcheck sounds like just the
right thing for that, afaics.


Corinna

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