Re: Planning: General Timelime
> > - File Upgrades. Upgrading the CygWin DLL is difficult. It cannot be
> > done while any CygWin executable is running. In fact, any file currently
> > open cannot be upgrade. This means that all daemons must be totally
> > stopped during the procedure, but it also makes it difficult to upgrade
> > the upgrader. How do we deal with that? Perhaps an external, self-
> > contained program that reads a list of files that must be moved and
> > does it at the first opportunity, trying every few seconds until there
> > are no more files to process?
>
> There are windows APIs for taking care of this, it will slot in any new
> files while the machine booting
It would be nice if we could avoid a reboot every time a user upgraded
a package. Such might be necessary for the main DLL itself, though.
Brian
( bcwhite@precidia.com )
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