Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/11/13/23:34:54
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 08:29:05PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 11:52:23PM +0100, Christian Franke wrote:
>>Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>>
>>>[...]
>>>
>>>Yep, so, as CGF noted, try
>>>
>>>$ /usr/sbin/syslogd >/dev/null 2>&1 </dev/null
>>>$ exit
>>
>>
>>That makes no difference. Shell exits but console window persists (at
>>least on XP SP2) until syslogd is terminated.
>>
>>Did you get a different result?
>
>No, you're right. I must have been hallucinating because I can't duplicate
>the result that I thought I saw previously. Reading the rest of the strace
>was instructive and I see what the problem is now.
>
>I hope to produce a fix soon. Sorry for the misinformation.
I'm uploading a snapshot which should fix the problem when CYGWIN=notty.
The console will stay attached when CYGWIN=tty, however, and I can't convince
myself that this is good behavior. I'll look at that more tomorrow.
cgf
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