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RE: cygwin.com suggestions
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- To: "Chris January" <chris at atomice dot net>,<cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 12:48:41 +1100
- Subject: RE: cygwin.com suggestions
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris January [mailto:chris@atomice.net]
> Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2002 10:34 AM
> > But that doesn't really replace the current DLL. IOW the
> changes are
> > not effective until one reboots. Personally I find this a
> crummy way to do things but perhaps that's all that can be done.
> Under Win NT/2k/XP it is actually possible to replace a DLL
> file that's currently in use without rebooting.
No its not - a rename operation on a memorymapped file fails. It's under
win16 *cough* win9x->Me that memorymapped files can be renamed or
deleted.
Rob
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