Re: tar and open files

2004-02-20 Thread Larry Hall
At 10:10 PM 2/20/2004, Steven Hartland you wrote: >- Original Message - >From: "Larry Hall" >> At 07:25 PM 2/20/2004, Steven Hartland you wrote: >> >That's a cool idea but its not an install so no pending files :( >> > >> >I was toying with the idea of amending tar for cygwin so that >> >

Re: tar and open files

2004-02-20 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: "Larry Hall" > At 07:25 PM 2/20/2004, Steven Hartland you wrote: > >That's a cool idea but its not an install so no pending files :( > > > >I was toying with the idea of amending tar for cygwin so that > >it could move the offending files to a specific dir or /v

Re: tar and open files

2004-02-20 Thread Larry Hall
At 07:25 PM 2/20/2004, Steven Hartland you wrote: >That's a cool idea but its not an install so no pending files :( > >I was toying with the idea of amending tar for cygwin so that >it could move the offending files to a specific dir or /var/tmp >by default when encountering such a file. All the ti

Re: tar and open files

2004-02-20 Thread Steven Hartland
t;Brian Dessent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 11:45 PM Subject: Re: tar and open files > "DePriest, Jason R." wrote: > > > > For a DLL, does just unregistering the DLL do what you need? I mean, > &g

Re: tar and open files

2004-02-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 03:45:14PM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote: >"DePriest, Jason R." wrote: >> >> For a DLL, does just unregistering the DLL do what you need? I mean, >> running 'regsvr32 /u ', put new file in place, run 'regsvr32 >> '? > >No. The replacement only occurs at boot-time. > >I don't

Re: tar and open files

2004-02-20 Thread Brian Dessent
"DePriest, Jason R." wrote: > > For a DLL, does just unregistering the DLL do what you need? I mean, > running 'regsvr32 /u ', put new file in place, run 'regsvr32 > '? No. The replacement only occurs at boot-time. I don't know if this is quite off-topic or not but I wrote the following perl s

RE: tar and open files

2004-02-20 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
f Of Igor Pechtchanski > Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 5:02 PM > To: Steven Hartland > Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com > Subject: Re: tar and open files > > > On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, Steven Hartland wrote: > > > Does anyone know of a way of getting round the file locking >

Re: tar and open files

2004-02-20 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, Steven Hartland wrote: > Does anyone know of a way of getting round the file locking in win32 / > cygwin so that in use files e.g. dll's can be replaced and next time the > app restarts they are picked up? > Steve Setup.exe uses the Windows "replace-on-reboot" feature for