[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 138461] Restart after Installation needed?

[bugzilla-daemon at bugs.documentfoundation.org]

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=138461

Mike Kaganski <mikekaganski at hotmail.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
         Resolution|---                         |NOTABUG

--- Comment #1 from Mike Kaganski <mikekaganski at hotmail.com> ---
The prompt is shown by Windows Installer (a Windows service), which was
instructed to replace something, and could not do that for some reason. The
reason usually is that the component was in use by some process.

This may happen e.g. when there's LibreOffice running (including quickstarter);
or another process uses LibreOffice components (that could be virtually any
process that shows a File dialog, which could use LibreOffice shell extension
to get extended information for files); or it could be a process using fonts
that need updating; or using MSVC runtime that LO installer could try to
update.

The failure to update the component *might* (and often is) not dangerous - e.g.
in cases when both old and new versions of the component are binary compatible.
So often it's safe to just ignore the restart prompt, and continue working.

But we can never be sure that it's actually safe - neither for LibreOffice
itself, nor for any external process that could happen to crash when continued
to use the old component, when partially updated state could break them.

So no, the prompt is correct, and must stay.

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