Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <000401c3039b$e7117100$5c16989e@oemcomputer> Reply-To: "Peter S Tillier" From: "Peter S Tillier" To: "Cygwin" References: <3E9A17B4 DOT 4090909 AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu> Subject: Re: setup.exe and "in-use-file" Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 23:11:01 +0100 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Rolf Campbell wrote: > Charles Wilson wrote: >> Sven Köhler wrote: >> >>> i know that this feature has been requested many many times! >> I don't know that. In fact, I can't recall this specific popup >> window EVER being requested, except as a possible proposal to solve >> a problem (but the problem was solved using a different method): >> There was some discussion about the problems setup PREVIOUSLY had >> updating a system when cygwin progs were running, and various >> solutions were proposed at that time. One of the proposed solutions >> was to do the popup thing as you descibe; another proposed solution >> was to use the standard Windows method of replacing in-use files: >> schedule them to be replaced on next-reboot, and ask the user "ok to >> reboot?" at setup's conclusion. The latter solution was chosen. > Well, let me be the 2nd person to request this feature. > > BTW: why would anyone want replace on reboot? Isn't it more > dangerous/annoying (under 99% of all situations) than any other > option? Ah, I often wondered why Microsoft use replace on reboot, it's obviously just to be dangerous and annoy us ;-) Peter S Tillier "Who needs perl when you can write dc, sokoban, arkanoid and an unlambda interpreter in sed?" -- 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/