[wix-users] Does burn wait for the MSI execution mutex?

[Edwin Castro]

Thanks for the confirmation!

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Edwin G. Castro

On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 4:34 PM, Rob Mensching <rob at firegiant.com> wrote:

> Windows Installer team generally deprecated checking the mutex. Instead,
> they said the best way to test was to just try to install. Retry on failure.
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> Subject: [wix-users] Does burn wait for the MSI execution mutex?
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> It seems burn doesn't wait for the MSI execution mutex. Is this correct?
> I'm getting failures where it appears that burn happens to be running
> coincidentally at the same time something else is installing and we fail
> instead of waiting until we can grab the mutex.
>
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> Edwin G. Castro
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