Wineboot

Fabian Cenedese Cenedese at indel.ch
Fri Dec 13 01:20:00 CST 2002


> > Personally, I would still prefer an external utility, to mimic the case
> > when the installer asks you "do you want me to reboot now?" and you say
> > "no, I'll do it later". In that case, I don't want to have file renamed,
> > etc... until I decide it's time to perform a reboot (by invoking wineboot).
> > So, in my opinion, the wine_need_reboot() function you name in that
> > pseudo-code should return TRUE only after one of the reboot functions have
> > been called (InitiateSystemShutdown, InitiateSystemShutdownEx,
> > ExitWindowsEx).
>
>So yeah, what you say does not conflict in any way with what I was proposing.
>Indeed, the wine_need_reboot() function should behave as you say. In fact, if
>we should exit the server of system shutdown for this to work as I see it...

If the reboot gets delayed and I just quit the program, is the reboot still 
called
at wine exit? Or would it be better if wine checks on every start if there are
things necessary to complete (copy files...)? Maybe already too late.

bye  Fabi





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