On December 12, 2002 11:16 am, Alberto Massari wrote: > Personally, I would still prefer an external utility, to mimic the case > when the installer asks you "do you want me to reboot now?" and you say > "no, I'll do it later". In that case, I don't want to have file renamed, > etc... until I decide it's time to perform a reboot (by invoking wineboot). > So, in my opinion, the wine_need_reboot() function you name in that > pseudo-code should return TRUE only after one of the reboot functions have > been called (InitiateSystemShutdown, InitiateSystemShutdownEx, > ExitWindowsEx).
Hmm, that message is a bit out of contest. It _is_ an external utility that does the reboot (it's the wineboot utility), the problem is when to invoke it. The reason I proposed to invoke it from the server rather than from the process is because: -- it seems that's the place that's equivalent to rebooting windows -- it avoids a bunch of nasty race conditions -- it is very simple So yeah, what you say does not conflict in any way with what I was proposing. Indeed, the wine_need_reboot() function should behave as you say. In fact, if we should exit the server of system shutdown for this to work as I see it... -- Dimi.
