From: Andrew DeFaria <Andrew@DeFaria.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Why I hate updates
Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 16:47:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <g1en0b$vcq$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0T52g9iaIfleNv8%stesch@parsec.no-spoon.de>
Stefan Scholl wrote:
> Because Cygwin sometimes forces me to restart the whole system after I
> install an additional program, I have developed the habit of updating
> Cygwin every start of a work day.
This is the silliest thing I've ever heard. It is true that if an
installation of Cygwin wants to overwrite a file that you currently have
loaded (e.g. Cygwin installs a new version of bash.exe and you're
running bash.exe) then you do have to reboot, once! You do not need to
update Cygwin everyday however. I fail to see why you thought this would
solve the problem you stated. And we can all see how this practice just
got you into a pickle.
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Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com>
Department of Redundancy Department
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-26 16:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-26 7:12 Stefan Scholl
2008-05-26 13:11 ` Eric Blake
2008-05-26 13:28 ` Stefan Scholl
2008-05-26 13:43 ` Eric Blake
2008-05-27 7:15 ` Stefan Scholl
2008-05-26 16:47 ` Andrew DeFaria [this message]
2008-05-26 20:00 ` Stefan Scholl
[not found] <1211808501.4769.ezmlm@cygwin.com>
2008-05-27 0:00 ` Richard Foulk
2008-05-27 0:11 ` Wes S
2008-05-27 3:33 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
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