setup-x86_64.exe (bug ?): Cannot write to /usr/bin/cygwin1.dll - cyserver squatting it...

[Bill Sharp]

On Thu, 16 Nov 2023 at 07:50, Brian Inglis via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
wrote:

> On 2023-11-16 00:03, Martin Wege wrote:
> > This is not helpful. Cygwin setup-x86-64.exe not being able to update,
> > because SOMETHING is locking cygwin1.dll is in the top 50 of your IT
> > support, right followed by the question of IT support whether
> > "updating to WSL" will solve the situation for them permanently.
>
>
> There may be critical or just really long Cygwin processes running that
> should
> not be killed because somebody wants to upgrade.
>
> Shutting down processes, including services, has to be left to the users
> or sys
> admins who understand whether the circumstances are suitable to kill
> processes
> to do an upgrade.
>


I actually agree with both of you to an extent.

However I would like to suggest the correct enchancement here would be for
setup to check for any running cygwin processes and then barf a warning
onto the user, referncing the appropriate documentation, before allowing
them to proceed.

Kind regards