Update problems

[Christopher Faylor]

On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 11:09:41AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>The most pressing problem is the replacement of the cygwin DLL itself.
>It's like installing a new kernel in Linux.  However, in Linux you have
>to reboot to use the new kernel, while Cygwin is just a DLL.  After the
>rename and replace operation, existing processes will use the old DLL
>while new processes will use the new DLL.  This is bound to break and
>there's no clean way to do it, except to replace the Cygwin DLL while
>no other Cygwin process is running.

In other words, the problem which has always been the problem is still
the problem.  However, people will keep suggesting that it is possible
to do this without offering concrete suggestions for at least the next
ten years.

cgf

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