Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: ronald owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 10:48:38 +0200 (CEST) From: Ronald Landheer-Cieslak X-X-Sender: ronald@localhost.localdomain To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Portable Cygwin on a CD In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Mon, 5 May 2003, Sam Edge wrote: > Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote in > > in gmane.os.cygwin on Mon, 5 May 2003 17:01:16 +0200 (CEST): > > I think it would be a very good idea to remove the mount table once you're > > done (and perhaps put the old one back if there was one). If the autorun > > program runs the bash or rxvt, it should be easy enough to clean up once > > it's done.. > I thought about this. The "autorun.exe" program could wait for the > rxvt.exe to terminate and then unmount everything. That's more or less what I was thinking.. > But what if you'd started up some detached Cygwin processes from > within the session? Unmounting everything might make them choke. but I hadn't thought about that.. > Autorun.exe could get /really/ clever hooking into Windows and sit in > the taskbar until it spots when the last instance of cygwin1.dll is > unloaded before unmounting everything, unlocking the CD-ROM eject > mechanism and exiting. I'm not going to write it for you, though. ;-) That, I can understand, but I might take a jab at it :) I don't have the slightest clue on how to lock a CD-ROM drive, though.. but the code for looking whether Cygwin is running can be found in Cygwin itself, so that's mostly a matter of copying & pasting :) rlc -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/