do package updates automatically kill running exes?

Andrew Schulman schulman.andrew@epa.gov
Thu Aug 13 06:19:00 GMT 2015


I've noticed that when I update a package, the exe's in it get killed.  For
example, when emacs gets updated, my running emacsen die.

Is this something that setup explicitly does, for all packages?  Or that some
packages do for themselves in a preremove script?  Or just a byproduct of
replacing a running exe?

Andrew



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