X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <496E7883.9080003@cygwin.com> Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:42:59 -0500 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20090101 Remi/2.0.0.19-1.fc8.remi Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.19 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: How do I shut down Cygwin cleanly? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 john.hunter@utas.edu.au wrote: > Thanks Larry, but I'm loath to waste space on this and other lists, and also > people's time by listing any of the knock-on effects of not terminating all > Cygwin processes (and resetting locks etc.) prior to firing up Cygwin again - > it seems reasonable to me that these effects would exist (I've experienced > them) but it also seems largely irrelevant to my present question to discuss > them. This is not a bug report - it is a "howto" request. > > So I'll summarise my original post into a single question: > > When running the latest version of Cygwin on Windows XP, what is the best simple > way of terminating all Cygwin processes, and resetting XP to effectively the > same state as it was before Cygwin was started? It depends on what you're running. If you've just started a Cygwin shell or shells, exiting them is enough. If you have a Cygwin service or services running, then you must stop them (with 'cygrunsrv --stop' or 'net stop'). If you have X running, you must exit X (typically through the menu on the X taskbar item). If you have a combination of these running, then you must do some combination of them. This will return you to a state where cygwin1.dll is not loaded anymore, which is the same process state relative to Cygwin as you were before you started any of them. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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/