X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:38:54 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cron jobs visible Message-ID: <20090810143854.GQ3204@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20090810113424.GL3204@calimero.vinschen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-02-20) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Aug 10 14:15, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > * Corinna Vinschen (Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:34:25 +0200) > > On Aug 10 12:57, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > > > I upgraded to Windows 7 on Sunday and now whenever cron runs a job, > > > the new forked cron process is visible in a console window. I > > > suspect that this might be related to the new "Console Window Host" > > > (conhost.exe) as I also get this window when I run screen inside a > > > shell. > > > > Cygwin 1.5.25, I presume. Cygwin 1.5.25 is not supported under W7. Use > > Cygwin 1.7 instead. It contains workarounds for a few really incredible > > bugs introduced in Windows 7 in terms of console windows. I reported two > > of them in the beta testing phase. One of them has been only partially > > fixed (and introduced a new one in the W7 32 bit), the other one hasn't > > been fixed at all in RTM. > > Thanks for the insight and background information. I'll probably wait > until 1.7 is out of beta and an "official" migration document is > released. What "official" migration document? There will be a release announcment and that's it. Since the test phase for Cygwin 1.7 is already more than 6 months, almost everybody should know by now what's coming. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple