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From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb AT ukf DOT net>
To: "Luke Kendall" <luke DOT kendall AT cisra DOT canon DOT com DOT au>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Problem with setup
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 14:40:04 -0000
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Luke Kendall wrote:
> I should also add that after a setup.exe crash at 9:38am after being
> left running overnight, later attempts to install that day (with the VM
> size steadily increasing, and setup.exe appearing to "stick" at the
> stage where it is installing the zip package), that setup.log was not
> updated by the later installation attempts.
>
> Shouldn't setup.log be getting opened in append mode?  We examined it
> at various times during a later installation attempt, and the contents
> didn't change and the file modification time stayed at 9:38am.

At the moment, the log files are written to disc in one bulk write when 
setup.exe completes. That's probably not a great design feature.

Max.


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