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Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 15:39:49 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Feature request:  inetd as a service on win98
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In-Reply-To: <F15DCDDFC247D011A0B20000F84A170F05B23181@mante10.nam.dow.com>; from habermann@dow.com on Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 08:10:45AM -0400

On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 08:10:45AM -0400, Habermann, David (DA) wrote:
> >On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 10:10:45AM +0200, Gerald Villemure wrote:
> >> In other words run inetd as a true service in win98 such that I can login
> >> and logout without affecting the inetd process.  Somewhat like the VNC
> >> server dose.
> >> 
> >> One option perhaps would be to introduce a new command in cygwin to hide
> a
> >> window based on PID with the option to also detach it from the session so
> >> the person can log out without a dialog popping up saying you need to
> close
> >> all your apps first.
> >
> >Just a question:  Why don't you contribute such a solution to
> >our community driven open source project called Cygwin?
> 
> In case it helps, I found that addition of the following code bit
> (originally 
> found as part of the VNC project) to SSHD allows it to detach from the DOS 
> window in which it was running, allowing the DOS window to be closed 
> on Win98.  

FWIW, I think that shouldn't be necessary anymore beginning with
the next Cygwin version.  We got a patch which should do the
FreeConsole() automagically when a process has daemonised itself
using the setsid() call.  Thanks anyway.

> Sorry that I'm not providing this in the standard patch form, but
> 
> no one has ever taught me how to create one.

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