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Date:	Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:22:08 -0500
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Subject:	Re: How do I shut down Cygwin cleanly?
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johunter AT postoffice DOT utas DOT edu DOT au wrote:
> I can find no recent discussion of how to cleanly shut down Cygwin - by
> this I mean shutting down all Cygwin processes, but not the Windows
> operating system (in my case XP). Not cleanly shutting down Cygwin
> processes tends to invoke Windows error messages on starting up Cygwin (I 
> use the X startup script startxwin.bat) and sometimes a failure to
> generate an X-window from startxwin.bat (which then has to be called
> again - generally successfully). "Shutting down" Cygwin by just closing
> all Cygwin windows does not seem to be a satisfactory option - other
> things are clearly going on in the background.

If your question really is directed just at Cygwin-X, you're probably
better off sending it to the cygwin-xfree list.  If you're experiencing
issues beyond that of X, then it would be helpful to anyone here who can
help to list those issues.

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A: Yes.
 > Q: Are you sure?
 >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
 >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?

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