Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 12:32:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Rich Elberger cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Upgrading Cygwin - postinstall difficulties? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Rich Elberger wrote: > > Well, you shouldn't run setup with Cygwin processes running in the first > > place. I've been meaning to add an interactive dialog on failing to > > replace cygwin1.dll that would let you kill Cygwin processes and retry the > > replacement, but haven't got to it yet (and probably won't for quite a > > bit). > > > > this is difficult to do and keep installation integrity. better might be > finding processes/file handles open in the cygwin install area after > choosing the installation target area, and not allowing install to continue > until those processes shut down. this is a classic installation issue, > and if you don't have cancel and (graceful) rollback, there will be a > loophole for failure. > > -- rich I scratch my itch, you scratch yours. ;-) . Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- 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/