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Re: sshd dies
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 02:49:57PM +0100, Pavel Tsekov wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 01:58:14PM +0100, Pavel Tsekov wrote:
> > > GregHolmes@aol.com wrote:
> > > >
> > > > After updating Cygwin this morning (~6:30 EST 11/9) I can't seem to run sshd.
> > > >
> > > > $ /usr/sbin/sshd
> > > > D:\CYGWIN\USR\SBIN\SSHD.EXE: *** MapViewOfFileEx 'shared'(0x20), Win32 error
> > > > 8.
> > >
> > > This is ERROR_NOT_ENOUGH_MEMORY. And maybe relates to this comment in
> > > MSDN - though
> > > this is just a hypothese.
> >
> > Or, perhaps, didn't you stop sshd before updating?
>
>
> Good point :) Quite, strange error code though :)
>
> However, this is not why I post this message. This problem -
> updating while cygwin service is running - seems to be a common
> one. So it would be good if there is some mechanism that anyone
> can use to see if the cygwin1.dll is active in memory. This
> way setup will know that its not a good idea to run and will
> inform the user that he/she must stop all the services and then
> try again.
>
> A simple way to do this is creating a named Mutex and checking if it
> exists - though I'm not sure it will apply to cygwin1.dll as easily.
> But there are others too, for sure.
This is a 9x/Me only problem anyway. On NT setup.exe tells you that
the dll can't be overwritten.
Corinna
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