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Werk #11845: Eliminated a possibility of the Windows crash when Windows agent terminates updater

Component Checks & agents
Title Eliminated a possibility of the Windows crash when Windows agent terminates updater
Date Feb 2, 2021
Level Trivial Change
Class Bug Fix
Compatibility Compatible - no manual interaction needed
Checkmk versions & editions
1.6.0p21 Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk MSP (CME)

Previously, on older Windows OS Windows agent may use invalid PID to kill process tree of the hanging Windows agent's updater thus crashing Windows.

Since this release, terminating of the hanging cmk-update-agent.exe is based not only on PID, but also on name thus eliminating possibility of the crash.

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