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PathOfBuilding-Updater

Updater for Path of Building

Background:

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Update.exe: This is used by the update system to update the runtime binaries. It runs with administrator privileges to comply with Windows' UAC; that shouldn't be required on other OSes. It contains a Lua interpreter which runs the script passed as the first argument. In practice, the only script it will run is UpdateApply.lua. To allow the LuaJIT binary to be updated, it uses a standard Lua interpreter (not the JIT) which is embedded in the executable. The script's environment consists of the standard Lua libraries, plus an extra API function SpawnProcess that starts the given process and returns without waiting for the process to finish. It also lowers the execution level so that the new process doesn't run with administrator privileges. UpdateApply.lua uses this to restart the main application after the runtime files have been updated.

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MIT