On Thu, 2002-01-24 at 03:57, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > Jeff Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cum veritate scripsit: > > > Is there a task list somewhere that shows things you'd like done? I > > might be able to tackle a couple of them. > > Good. there is no clear task list, AFAIK. I think the status is: > > o Problem: Windows files (e.g. DLL) cannot be replaced while in use
Yes. I've coded a bare bones solution into the cygwin setup, which can be generalised to dpkg, but as it requires a reboot, some care must be taken for system consistency. (i.e. don't run scripts that may need a newer version of whatever couldn't be replaced..) A better solution is run-time program closing and restarting, but that is not implemented in the opensource world yet (AFAIK). > o Problem: Windows doesn't like filenames with ":" ? IIRC, : can be stored in NTFS native names,using the POSIX_SEMANTICS flag, or the NT Native API, but that doesn't help for win9x. One possibility is escaping the : in some form, consistently, and then unescaping it in libc. Rob
