X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:44:36 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cron jobs visible Message-ID: <20090810164436.GB7571@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20090810113424.GL3204@calimero.vinschen.de> <20090810143854.GQ3204@calimero.vinschen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) 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 Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 06:31:53PM +0200, Thorsten Kampe wrote: >* Corinna Vinschen (Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:38:54 +0200) >>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. > >Something like "how to move from 1.5 to 1.7". Or will it be an >automatic process done via (and by) Setup.exe? Or will we have to do a >"fresh install" :-/ ? i.e., the release announcement. cgf -- 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