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Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:00:29 +0000
From: Andy Koppe <andy.koppe@gmail.com>
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Robert Pendell wrote:
> I modified cygwin.bat to execute mintty.
> Looks like mintty doesn't detach completely on it's own 

Yep, that's a known issue (number 4 in the issue tracker), and I haven't
yet worked out how to do this properly. I've tried closing files 0
through 3 and doing a setsid(), but that's not sufficient. Hints on how
to detach properly would be much appreciated.

> I appended
> 'start' to the beginning to it.  The program will continue to run but
> the black box will disappear.  If start doesn't work then use 'cygstart'
> instead as that one is supplied by cygwin.  Basically the last line of
> cygwin.bat was changed to show as...
> 
> start mintty bash --login -i

Thanks! That's a good workaround.

Andy


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