Re: RFA: Support Windows extended error numbers in safe_strerror

Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-02-08T23:23:54Z

On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 12:16:02AM +0100, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> I always understood having two different versions of a DLL with the
> same name as being the "DLL hell" problem. Am I wrong? I can't
> believe that in the last 10 years that people have been talking about
> this problem, MicroSoft didn't come up with a solution for it. And
> even if they didn't, the solution is simple: just ship the Cygwin
> DLL's under a different name. Or just link the Cygwin code
> statically. Or is that impossible on Windows?

My understanding is that this is incompatible with the design of
Cygwin, and e.g. the mechanisms it uses to manage "emulated"
inter-process resources that don't map obviously onto Windows.
Like character devices and TTYs, to give some relevant examples.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery