----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2001 3:13 AM Subject: setup.exe suggestion [[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: sshd dies]
> It probably would be a good idea to add an "is cygwin running?" check > to setup.exe. It could be a little tricky to determine, though, since > the name of the shared regions that cygwin uses can change. Errgh, I really don't like this. Checking if package foo is running before upgrading it, yes. Checking if cygwin is running at all, no. > I'm sort of loath to add a standard named entity in cygwin just to > accomodate setup.exe. > > Possibly, just walking through all of the processes and seeing if they've > loaded cygwin1.dll is a brute force approach. Which doesn't cover all cases :p. (Ie cygwin1.dll is only one file to be detected for write issues.) What we need is to be able to check for any of the .exe's or .dll's in a package, before uninstalling, and allow a [cancel][retry] option. You're right that the snapshot approach is probably best. Rob
