Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Spurious / persistent "exception" condition in half-closed sockets

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>]

On Jul  9 23:02, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] via Cygwin wrote:
> > This was fixed in Cygwin 3.3.0, as the announcement of the latter stated:
> 
> Thanks!  So maybe it is time to upgrade... after all LOL
> 
> > But you can still run a parallel Cygwin installation
> 
> I tried that before...  And it did not work out well.  Unless it's a VM,
> there's a small but real chance that at some point they are to get intertwined,

This must have been very long ago.  For a long time, Cygwin's path
handling and shared memory interaction between Cygwin processes is
based on the installation path of the Cygwin DLL a process is running
under.  A Cygwin process running under a Cygwin DLL from path A uses
different default Windows PATH and different shared memory names than a
process running under Cygwin DLL from path B.  Keeping Cygwin
installations separate just requires never to run processes from
installation A under Cygwin DLL B.


> and then ... it's quite a mess (learned that the hard way, unfortunately).

It really isn't.  Only if you start to mix paths from two parallel
Cygwin installations inside the same shell session, which should be
easy to avoid.


Corinna