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Re: do package updates automatically kill running exes?
- From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko at nexgo dot de>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2015 19:59:54 +0200
- Subject: Re: do package updates automatically kill running exes?
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Andrew Schulman writes:
> OK. Right, I have seen and used that dialog. But more often, I just notice that
> after an update, processes have exited. This happened to me recently with
> mintty, for example, but there have been others.
If you do an automated install, you will not be prompted.
> Anyway, that answers my question. If I want to be sure a process from one of my
> packages exits, I need to put a killall into its preremove script.
I've put a "pkill ." in all scripts that run setup (with the requisite
are you sure? y/N).
Regards,
Achim.
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