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From: "Martin Gainty" <mgainty AT hotmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: setup.exe and "in-use-file"
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 18:46:59 -0700
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That is considerably more difficult a task
You would have to code a taskwalker which identifies the Cygwin task that is
running and summarily kill it
..Meanwhile keeping the install dialog active waiting for the file to be
unlocked by the Cygwin process.
Martin
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From: "Sven Köhler" <skoehler AT upb DOT de>
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Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2003 5:23 PM
Subject: Re: setup.exe and "in-use-file"


> > The Window you requested is a Operating System feature request.
> > Under Unix you would be implementing a Curses function and Under Windows
> > you would implement a WIN32 Window function.
>
> Are we talking about the same thing?
>
> Cygwin's setup.exe is a win32-app.
> It uses some Win32-API to open-files. If a file is "in use" (for example
> cygwin.dll while cygwin-bash is running), it displays a windows at the
> end, that i have to reboot my system, because the file could not be
> replaced.
>
>
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