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Re: New snapshots and old binaries
- To: "Charles S. Wilson" <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>
- Subject: Re: New snapshots and old binaries
- From: Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 11:17:56 -0400
- Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
- References: <37C98524.6A62A265@ece.gatech.edu>
- Reply-To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
On Sun, Aug 29, 1999 at 03:08:20PM -0400, Charles S. Wilson wrote:
>Will I need to recompile ALL of these libraries and executables before
>my system returns to "normal", or what?
If the DLL is named cygwin1.dll it will be backwards compatible. If the
cygwin DLL does not work with a .exe that uses cygwin1.dll then that's a
bug in the DLL.
The biggest change in using the snapshot will be that the mounts will be
migrated to a new place in the registry but that should be transparent,
too.
I have seen occasional reports from people who indicated that they
supposedly had problems with mount tables after upgrading to a snapshot
but I've never had a clear idea what the problems are.
The other thing that you may notice is that unmounted directories will
be referred to as something like /cygdrive/c/foo rather than //c/foo
although it is still (temporarily) permissable to use //c as a valid
pathname.
cgf
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