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 -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
