[Discuss] cygwin desktop, utilities for usb

[Deryk Barker]

Thus spake Noel Burton-Krahn (noel at burton-krahn.com):

> Actually, (not that I'm in the habit of defending Windows)  this is Cygwin's
> fault.  Windows is pretty good about allowing multiple apps to install with
> different versions of the same dll, as long as each app keeps its local
> versions in its own private directory.

Fair enough - if dangerous and IMHO mistaken.

>  This would even work with Cygwin,
> except that Cygwin creates a single system-wide shared memory pool for all
> cygwin apps, and that memory pool structure is versioned. 

Oooooh!

>  Two different
> versions of cygwin try to access the same shared memory pool and bam!  One
> workaround would be to hack cygwin so it keeps one global shared memory pool
> per version.

One wonders how Cygwin tests their new version...

-- 
|Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | Music does not have to be understood|
|Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to.           |
|email: dbarker at camosun.bc.ca         |                                     |
|phone: +1 250 370 4452               |         Hermann Scherchen.          |