From c58f9a3991addbc6df1e75d8df0d80bfa145efa6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dmitry Jemerov <yole@intellij.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:25:41 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] comment

---
 .../com/intellij/openapi/application/impl/Win32Restarter.java | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/platform-impl/src/com/intellij/openapi/application/impl/Win32Restarter.java b/platform-impl/src/com/intellij/openapi/application/impl/Win32Restarter.java
index 3a38ee2a6d43..20cdab13528e 100644
--- a/platform-impl/src/com/intellij/openapi/application/impl/Win32Restarter.java
+++ b/platform-impl/src/com/intellij/openapi/application/impl/Win32Restarter.java
@@ -28,6 +28,10 @@ public class Win32Restarter {
       Messages.showMessageDialog("Restart failed: " + ex.getMessage(), "Restart", Messages.getErrorIcon());
       return;
     }
+
+    // Since the process ID is passed through the command line, we want to make sure that we don't exit before the "restarter"
+    // process has a chance to open the handle to our process, and that it doesn't wait for the termination of an unrelated
+    // process which happened to have the same process ID.
     try {
       Thread.sleep(500);
     }