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Subject: RE: setup.exe --quiet-mode
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 10:29:53 +0100
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Brian Dessent wrote on 04 September 2008 20:05:

> Rob wrote:
> 
>> until you click the OK button. This clearly is not "unattended". It
>> would be better if it could just exit with a specific error code that
>> you could read and take some action (restart).
> 
> I agree that it's not correct, but I disagree about the conclusion.  It
> should silently schedule any inuse files for replacement on the next
> reboot, and continue. 

  It might be worth trying a snapshot of 2.602, I think we fixed this on
mainline: it should automatically choose the "ok" or "continue" option in any
dialogs that would be generated.

http://cygwin.com/setup/snapshots

    cheers,
      DaveK
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