Windows Service Silent Update: Difference between revisions

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 *On Firefox (or any other Mozilla application that uses the service) startup, Firefox detects an update is ready to be applied
-*Firefox checks to see if the service is started; if the service is not started it will start the service.
+*Whether or not the service should be used, Firefox executes updater.exe unelevated.
-*Firefox will write out a 'work item' file into the directory being watched with Firefox's session ID, the path of updater.exe, and the command line parameters that are passed to updater.exe
+*Firefox shuts itself down.
+*updater.exe unelevated checks to see if the service should be used, and if so tries to start the service.
+*updater.exe unelevated will write out a 'work item' file into the directory being watched with the work item details.
 *If the service can't be started, is disabled, or does not exist, Firefox will execute updater.exe as it used to without the service.
-*Firefox shuts itself down.
+*If the service was used, updater.exe unelevated waits for a global named event to be set which indicates the update is done.
+*Once done updater.exe unelevated will run the callback application and the post update process.
 == Applying an update from the service's perspective ==