X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4FC4F6A6.7050101@w5pny.com> References: <4FC4F6A6.7050101@w5pny.com> Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 19:31:18 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Mintty Log Off problem (now 1.7.16s) From: Andy Koppe To: w5pny@w5pny.com, cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id q4TIVcTr012525 On 29 May 2012 17:17, Harry G McGavran Jr wrote: > > Ryan Johnson wrote: >> >>I routinely encounter mintty windows that don't close after >>I exit the login shell they run (even though they contain no >>visible child processes), but they can still be closed using >>the big red "X" in the corner... your problem sounds like >>something more sinister. >> >>Ryan >> > > There is never an "X" to deal with here.  One never know there is > a problem until he does start->Log Off to log out of windows. > > I can normally close any/all mintty windows and then with various > process explorers try to find a mintty process and never find any. > Then when I log out of Windows, Windows claims it has to close > mintty.exe.  This was fixed once in a snapshot of 1.7.10, but > has since returned with 1.7.15.  In this incarnation it seems to > occur whenever I've run a Cygwin X app from a mintty window. > If I've signed on in Windows and never run a Cygwin X app it > generally doesn't happen, but I can't be sure it never happens. > Every time I've run a Cygwin X app though I can expect to see > it after closing (apparently normally) all mintty windows and > then log off of Windows. Do I understand you correctly that you no longer have any mintty windows open when this happens? That's puzzling indeed. Have you looked at ye olde Big List Of Dodgy Applications? http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda Andy -- 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