Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 12989] Check for Updates requires manually exiting Wiresha
Comment # 2
on bug 12989
from Alan Adams
(In reply to Guy Harris from comment #1)
> So this bug should probably focus on the "automatically shut down and save
> work when updating" part; the full state saving should be done separately.
Makes sense. The reference to "I don't know if there is already Windows
Restart Manager behavior supported in Wireshark builds on Windows" was just
intended to make sure the enhancement leveraged any such support if it was
already present, and not that "save state during restart" was a critical or
required part of the enhancement. Just desirable.
I see now that "Windows Restart Manager" was the wrong technology to have cited
though, and is actually what an installer would use for managing the /request/
to restart specific services or applications.
What I was thinking of was the "Application Recovery and Restart", and the
example in "Registering for Application Restart". This is what should provide
the opportunity for an application to save and restore its state when something
like Windows Update restarts the machine in the middle of the night, etc.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/cc948909(v=vs.85).aspx
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb525423(v=vs.85).aspx
Agree that if this or some other "save and restore the open application state"
functionality does not already exist in the Windows build of Wireshark,
introducing such functionality would be an entirely different enhancement.
Its only if that functionality already exists that it should be leveraged by
the current enhancement request.
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