do package updates automatically kill running exes?

[Achim Gratz]

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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