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Re: setup request:
- To: "Earnie Boyd" <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>,"Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>,<cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Subject: Re: setup request:
- From: "Armin Sander" <armin at mindwalker dot org>
- Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 17:22:50 +0100
- References: <20001121142439.20942.qmail@web119.yahoomail.com>
Hi,
> Not only is it low priority it is basically not doable. Win32 prevents
> setup.exe being replaced if it's open. One could never rely on the
setup.exe
> being replaced being closed, so it's not worth consideration.
There is a simple solution on all win-os's and filesystems. It is possible
to clone setup.exe and 're-spawn' it for enabling patches to the main
executable. I am using such a solution in a similar structured self-updating
software.
I may provide some delphi-source excerpts on request (easy to read'n'port).
armin
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