Installshield 6 crash: ole trouble

[Mike Hearn]

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.  
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Mike Hearn <m.hearn at signal.qinetiq.com>
QinetiQ - Malvern Technology Center