Ah, I meant from the perspective of the InstallShield developers rather than how to hack around it in Wine. Well, they must have had their reasons....
On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 10:34, Greg Turner wrote: > On Wednesday 22 January 2003 03:53 am, Mike Hearn wrote: > > Why not just use threads? Is there a particular advantage to using > > IPC in this instance? I'd guess that ikernel.exe is the program that > > does the installing, and the program you launch does the front end > > code? > > I don't know the full story with IS6: I haven't experimented with that > particular bug. But, generally speaking, you can't just fudge threads > for processes; if a.exe runs b.exe, and exepects to speak to it via > RPC, there's basically no hope of getting around the cross-process > nature of the problem. -- Mike Hearn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> QinetiQ - Malvern Technology Center
