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-Info: This message was accepted for relay by smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net as the sender used SMTP authentication X-Trace: UmFuZG9tSVbqq9pa2pxeI8XzZhuYPU0TD3ZZKjZ2/EKTW/RRgwB1sBEddHJrW+RA Message-ID: <3F1ED6EC.6040100@cygwin.com> Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 14:41:48 -0400 From: Larry Hall Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Richard Anderson CC: Timothy C Prince , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: How to diagnose Cygwin / Windows shutdown problem References: <1058981234.c86164c0tprince@myrealbox.com> <006a01c35145$3e0dc930$19c3fea9@RAnderson> In-Reply-To: <006a01c35145$3e0dc930$19c3fea9@RAnderson> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Richard Anderson wrote: > So this is a know issue? Seems like non-standard behavior for a Windows app. > All Windows apps that I know of catch the shutdown interrupt, clean up their > data structures and exit gracefully. Is there some reason why Cygwin can't > do this? Let's turn the question around. Are you interested in implementing and submitting a patch to do this? I'm sure folks here would be willing to discuss the viability of such functionality in the context of a patch to implement it. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/