X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 21:35:39 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: install on win7 enterprise, can't modify bash start up shortcut Message-ID: <20110819193539.GJ13266@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4E4C71F0.1010509@molconn.com> <4E4E9439.20908@molconn.com> <4E4EAC13.2080005@molconn.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) 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 19 21:19, Csaba Raduly wrote: > On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 8:31 PM, LMH wrote: > > (Please don't top-post) > > I've had no issue with re-sizing the bash window in the past and having > > those changes saved to the shortcut, even on win7 ent, so I am concerned > > about the health of the install. > > The health of the Cygwin install should be unrelated. I gues this is > some Windows-y permission issue. > The shortcut points to cygwin.bat; Windows runs cmd.exe to interpret > the batch file, which eventually starts bash. > > >The desktop icon points to Cygwin.bat, but > > that doesn't have anything in it about the bash shell. Can someone point me > > to the ini file where the specs of the bash window would be recorded? > > That window belongs to cmd.exe; No, not really. Cmd is a shell, like bash. Up to Windows Vista and Server 2008, the console itself was implemented as just a bunch of library functions and a shared core in the csrss process. Start bash from Explorer, and in Task Manager you will see that no cmd is running. Starting with Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2, the console window is implemented as a standalone application called conhost.exe. So, if you start bash from explorer in W7, you will not only see bash, but also an additional conhost process. So, in a way conhost is the same as mintty, a terminal emulator, even if not a good one. Either way, that's a common misunderstanding of the way the Windows console works. It was never cmd. Cmd is and always was only a shell, just another console application like bash. I hope it goes without saying why you see a cmd process in task manager when you started bash via the Cygwin.bat batch file... 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