Installshield 6 crash: ole trouble

Mike Hearn m.hearn at signal.qinetiq.com
Wed Jan 22 03:53:30 CST 2003


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?

On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 16:48, Greg Turner wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 January 2003 04:38 am, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 09:43:29AM +0000, Mike Hearn wrote:
> > > Would this be fixed by the work that's being done on Wines RPC
> > > implementation?
> >
> > This is a different implementation, when it is finished ... yes.
> 
> don't hold your breath :)  But I concur, implementing the RPC APIs, 
> including the DCOM specific ones, will fix it eventually.  Now that I 
> have an actual working test, I can continue work on the actual 
> implementation side.  But first I want to do some more cabextract 
> stuff, since it appears that it's not 100% working yet.
> 
> > The current implementation should be capable of doing that too.
> >
> > > Why exactly does an installer require such complex parts of OLE
> > > anyway? That seems like overkill for a self-extracting exe to me.
> >
> > No clue.
> 
> Well, it's not hard to imagine why an installer might need some 
> interprocess communicaiton.  And since RPC is available for basically 
> every MS OS out there, and even non-MS platforms, it's easy to see how 
> they came to the decision to use it.
-- 
Mike Hearn <m.hearn at signal.qinetiq.com>
QinetiQ - Malvern Technology Center




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