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jofel

8:56 AM

@terdon Thanks for the hint. I'll care more in the future.

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terdon

10:39 AM

@jofel No worries. I know it takes some getting used to :)

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Faheem Mitha

3:06 PM

Ok, your question is clearer now. However, I still don't understand what you mean by "is it possible to make a handler for upgrade instead of deleting and installing?" What do you mean by a handler? — Faheem Mitha 3 mins ago

Anyone got any ideas what is meant by this?

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Faheem Mitha

4:58 PM

I still don't understand what he means...

I want to handle upgrade command and ask addition confirm before my package will be removed. In other way user may stop application unexpectedly by using apt-get upgrade. — Sild 7 mins ago

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Braiam

7:43 PM

@FaheemMitha I only know that dpkg doesn't care what you pass apt

if I'm not mistaken on upgrade it runs --unpack plus a trigger I don't remember right now

Faheem Mitha

8:06 PM

@Braiam Sure. But I still don't understand what this poster is asking. Do you?

And if so, could you translate it into standard English, and maybe edit the post?

Digital Trauma

what's the consensus?...

Q: Monitor if a process has terminated in C

Introduction I am writing a monitoring program in C, which performs the fork() and exec() cycle. However I need to check whether the child process has terminated or not without blocking the main process, i.e. the monitoring program. Something like this: Main process pid_t child_pid = fork(); i...