Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 15:39:49 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin Subject: Re: Feature request: inetd as a service on win98 Message-ID: <20010907153949.D17245@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from habermann@dow.com on Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 08:10:45AM -0400 On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 08:10:45AM -0400, Habermann, David (DA) wrote: > >On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 10:10:45AM +0200, Gerald Villemure wrote: > >> In other words run inetd as a true service in win98 such that I can login > >> and logout without affecting the inetd process. Somewhat like the VNC > >> server dose. > >> > >> One option perhaps would be to introduce a new command in cygwin to hide > a > >> window based on PID with the option to also detach it from the session so > >> the person can log out without a dialog popping up saying you need to > close > >> all your apps first. > > > >Just a question: Why don't you contribute such a solution to > >our community driven open source project called Cygwin? > > In case it helps, I found that addition of the following code bit > (originally > found as part of the VNC project) to SSHD allows it to detach from the DOS > window in which it was running, allowing the DOS window to be closed > on Win98. FWIW, I think that shouldn't be necessary anymore beginning with the next Cygwin version. We got a patch which should do the FreeConsole() automagically when a process has daemonised itself using the setsid() call. Thanks anyway. > Sorry that I'm not providing this in the standard patch form, but > > no one has ever taught me how to create one. diff -up oldsource newsource Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/