27183 - Don't require a restart

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: Installer, defect, P3)

Description

[Michael La Guardia]

If we detect PSM or some other code running in the installer, we should require 
that the application running it be quit before continuing with the install.  
Currently we install anyways and force a restart to swap out the code.

Comment 1

[Sean Su]

this should be a Beta1 stopper after all the work that went into fixing: 
  http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10432

This is not difficult to fix.  There's already code in place to detect 
mozilla.exe running, and tell the user to quit it before continuing.

Comment 2

[Sean Su]

okay, it's a little harder when I don't know what to look for.

Bob, do you know of a way to detect if psm.exe is running under 
windows (preferably a window name or classname)?  I need to detect and let the 
user know that it needs to be shut down before install can continue.

Comment 3

[Javier Delgadillo]

To detect if psm is running, call the function CMT_ControlConnect.  If the
funciton returns NULL, then that means PSM is not running.  A non-NULL return
value means there already is a PSM running and you can now try to establish a
session with it.

Of course, this is if you're writing a C/C++ program.  Is there a way to look
for a proccess by name on Windows from your interface?

To get the user to quit PSM, tell the user to quit all applications.  When all
applications talking to PSM exit, PSM shuts itself down.  (If it doesn't, that's
a bug that we need to address .

Hope this helps.

Comment 4

[Sean Su]

fixed!  It now detects psm.exe as a running process and displays the appropriate 
dialog message.

Comment 5

[Grace Bush]

appropriate dialog warns of psm running
build 2000021609