X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BARRACUDA_BRBL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS,TVD_SPACED_SUBJECT_WORD3 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Thorsten Kampe Subject: Re: MinTTY Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:21:13 +0100 Lines: 15 Message-ID: References: <495917BA.1090401@gmail.com> <6910a60812291430i6e2c394agcedab557bbf6f673@mail.gmail.com> <4959B7F7.9020400@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <495A1811.3030209@gmail.com> <495A2BF2.7040409@elite-systems.org> <495A90E4.6020706@elite-systems.org> <495AA80D.3000709@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/2.71.4 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 * Andy Koppe (Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:00:29 +0000)> > 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. ?? If you run a GUI application from a batch file on the NT family, the batch file will not close until the GUI app is closed. So this behaviour of mintty is not an "issue" but completely normal. Thorsten -- 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/