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Re: for the brave



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----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Wilson" <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>

> Hmmm....W2K it reports "REplaced in use file -- you need to reboot" or
> some such.  BUT: I had no cygwin processes running.
>    a) what file did it THINK was in use?

I'll look at providing more detail in the future. Also an option 'do you
want to continue, or close programs and retry' could be useful.

>    b) why did it erroneously thing so?

Check the .full log. You'll see a error about being unable to open a
particular file for writing - that's the file it thought was in use.

> On the plus side, it accurately upgraded my system from readline-4.2
to
> readline-4.2a/libreadline5-4.2a/libreadline4-4.1 all-at-once.  (The
> older version would've screwed that up unless I did the two-step
shuffle)

*bow*.

Rob


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