Patrick Storz

Yes, I know the message, but previously the console could be closed and there was no locked process reported by mintty. Nowadays a process remains that needs to be killed....

@Alexpux I found the issue: * if pacman is run with `--noconfirm` it does not wait but return immediately after full system upgrade, see [here](https://github.com/Alexpux/MSYS2-packages/blob/5a0d2a9c31e50a8f61530aa7351a9db4f6983920/pacman/0000-pacman-msysize.patch#L1553) * however if pacman is...

Is there any reason for `wait_indefinitely();` (even when run interactively?)

Code introduced in https://github.com/Alexpux/MSYS2-pacman/commit/6e0ff8324dca152b312a2d39ab025f9888896b9c

Even found a workaround for it that does not require a code change: Pacman has an undocumented option `--ask` that takes a number, which is then converted into a bitmask...

Ah, yes, I was looking in the wrong place yesterday and assumed "0" was the default answer to all questions, but it is overwritten in [`cb_question`](https://github.com/Alexpux/MSYS2-pacman/blob/72bebac3cb01c77be28cbb8443c865296e9d886b/src/pacman/callback.c#L378), so `--ask=20` should be...

I created a PR for the change, unfortunately pacman does not build for me right now :-/

@tico-tico: No, with the changes you should only use `--noconfirm`.

Unfortunate that you comment now that the change was merged... I still believe this is the best approach (otherwise I would not have proposed it): * `--ask` is not documented,...

The idea was that nobody added `--ask` to start with (I'm almost sorry now that I mentioned the option before) or if they did they were aware it was a...