Ah, I meant from the perspective of the InstallShield developers rather than how to hack around it in Wine. Well, they must have had their reasons....
On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 10:34, Greg Turner wrote:
On Wednesday 22 January 2003 03:53 am, Mike Hearn wrote:
Why not just use threads? Is there a particular advantage to using IPC in this instance? I'd guess that ikernel.exe is the program that does the installing, and the program you launch does the front end code?
I don't know the full story with IS6: I haven't experimented with that particular bug. But, generally speaking, you can't just fudge threads for processes; if a.exe runs b.exe, and exepects to speak to it via RPC, there's basically no hope of getting around the cross-process nature of the problem.