note about recent cygwin snapshot

Mon Jan 26 18:15:00 GMT 2004

On 2004年1月26日, Eric I. Arnoth wrote:
> I ran the cygwin setup.exe to install inet_utils, and found that a good
> number of cygwin apps got upgraded without my asking it to.
>The "default" option in setup means "upgrade it if I already have it and
it is out-of-date." So, maybe you asked for it but didn't know it?
> I then found every Cygwin app calling the error
>> "main] ? 2988 shared_info::initialize: size of shared memory region
> >changed from 21008 to 47112"
>Did setup ask you to reboot? Try it. Your problem may then disappear :).
> After some judicious Googling, I found the following message explaining the
> problem as running two different versions of Cygwin at the same time:
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-01/msg00436.html
>Good man.
> My only question is, how do I remedy this?
>Simple. Try the above first. If that doesn't work, search your entire
hard drive[s] for cygwin1.dll, and remove the one that is not in \bin.
> Do I need to uninstall and reinstall everything?
>Nope.
> Is there a quick & easy way to clean this up wtihout such a major overhaul?
>Yep. See above.
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