Problem with setup

[Max Bowsher]

Luke Kendall wrote:
> I should also add that after a setup.exe crash at 9:38am after being
> left running overnight, later attempts to install that day (with the VM
> size steadily increasing, and setup.exe appearing to "stick" at the
> stage where it is installing the zip package), that setup.log was not
> updated by the later installation attempts.
>
> Shouldn't setup.log be getting opened in append mode?  We examined it
> at various times during a later installation attempt, and the contents
> didn't change and the file modification time stayed at 9:38am.

At the moment, the log files are written to disc in one bulk write when 
setup.exe completes. That's probably not a great design feature.

Max.


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