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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 03:27:10 +0200
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> Sven-
> Sven-

Martin-
Martin-

> To put in your new DLL to replace the DLL which is currently running you
> will have to find the Cygwin task that is using the DLL and kill it so the
> process will release it's lock on resources that it is using...

I already know that, i hopefully didn't write anything, that lead people 
to the conclusion, that i want setup.exe to do that.

> Make Sense?

Sure, but that's still not what i'm talking about!

setup.exe currently does the follwoing to write a file:

1. open destination.file
successful: jump to 2
error: jump to 3
2. write content, close file and jump to 4
3. write content to another file, and tell windows to replace the 
destination-file on next reboot.
4. process next file

all i want setup.exe to do, is the following

1. same as step 1 above
2. same as step 2 above
3a. inform user, that file cannot be opened for writing because it is in 
use and ask the user, if setup.exe should retry
user chooses YES: goto step 1
user chooses NO: goto step 3b
3b. same as step 3 above
4. same as step 4 above

of course it would be nice to know which process is using the file, but 
that's not what i'm talking about! i'm just want setup.exe to avoid 
reboots by __interacting__ with the __user__!!!



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