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Re: [1.7.0-40] parallel (multiple) instances of version 1.7
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 19:40:59 +0100
- Subject: Re: [1.7.0-40] parallel (multiple) instances of version 1.7
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- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Feb 16 19:22, Pascal Favre wrote:
> Hello
>
> The latest discussion about parallel instances are dated back to april 2008, discussing parallel instances of 1.5 and 1.7, not
> multiple instances of 1.7
>
> I noticed when having parallel instances of 1.7 the first startet instances sets the base in /etc/fstab. All further startups (bash)
> of different cygwin installations use the first installation as their base.
>
> Is it possible to have parallel instances of 1.7 ?
The 1.7 version changed the way the global objects are created but there
was never planned to have multiple version of 1.7. Even though you can
use a 1.5 and a 1.7 install and run in parallel, the "there must be only
one Cygwin running" rule applies.
Corinna
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