RFC: [PATCH] Retry replacing in-use files in setup

[Lapo Luchini]

Igor Peshansky wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Lapo Luchini wrote:
>
>   
>> Igor Peshansky wrote:
>>     
>>> I'd like some comments from people on both the behavior and my
>>> assumptions.
>>>       
>> I like the idea.
>>
>> I guess/hope this also solves the "bug" that also if the command line
>> option to waiting for files (i.e. NOT putting them on the reboot-list)
>> they are marked as not correctly installed? (but they in fact are)
>>     
>
> No, this does not fix that "bug".  I assume you mean the
> "--no-replaceonreboot" option -- as I understand it, the way it was
> designed to work is to mark the files as "failed to install" instead of
> putting them on the "replace-on-reboot" list if they could not be replaced
> right away.  It was not designed to wait for files -- that's what my patch
> is doing.
Err... strange... in fact that option *does* indeed wait for files: the
modal window is open continually trying to write the file until I
"unlock" it (usually with a "net stop sshd"), and only then it continues
installing other files.
That's way I thought it was a bug and not a meant feature. ^_^

Lapo