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SpiderLily1
Level 6

Is(FILE_LOCKED) not working to detect if uninstalled java.exe running

I have installscript code that uses Is(FILE_LOCKED) to check several .exe's and java.exe to determine if they are running.  The path to all of the .exe's is supplied.  The paths to various (installed) java.exe's is found via a registry check in the Javasoft key.  That works as intended.

Sometimes Java does not have a registry key - it is just unzipped, and referenced with the "JAVA_HOME" variable.  So I used the GetEnvVar ("JAVA_HOME", svValue) function to get the path to Java, and then appended "\\bin\\java.exe."  I verified that the installer knows the correct path.   However, in this one circumstance, Is(FILE_LOCKED) doesn't work.

Our application "MyApp.exe" launches with Java.  When running correctly, "MyApp.exe" and the Java binary will be running.    Currently, Is(FILE_LOCKED) correctly tells when MyApp.exe is running, but not Java.  When MyApp.exe is running when I try to install a patch, the Is(FILE_LOCKED) function lists "MyApp.exe" in a list of "Files in Use."  If I kill MyApp.exe from Task Manager, the MyApp GUI remains open, and the Java binary is still running, so there are still locked files, but re-running the Is(FILE_LOCKED) function shows everything is fine, and the install will continue.  It shouldn't do that!

I'm using Amazon Corretto OpenJDK 8.  The JAVA_HOME path is C:\Users\Public\amazon-corretto-java\jdk1.8.0_222, to make sure it was accessible.

Does anyone have a clue what's going on?  Is there some other way I can do this?

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SpiderLily1
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I think I figured it out.  When I look at the properties of the Java binary running in Task Manager, the path of the java.exe is cut off.   The "MyApp" launcher wasn't using C:\Users\Public\amazon-corretto-java\jdk1.8.0_222\bin\java.exe.  It was using C:\Users\Public\amazon-corretto-java\jdk1.8.0_222\jre\bin\java.exe.

So I didn't have the right path afterall.

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