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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sven_K=F6hler?= <skoehler AT upb DOT de>
Subject: Re: setup.exe and "in-use-file"
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 02:54:43 +0200
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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.

i feel very misunderstood!
i didn't want setup.exe to walk any process-tree or somethin!
i just wanted setup.exe to retry opening the file! (after the user has 
terminated any app/service that might be still running)



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