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Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 19:13:27 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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cc: Brian Ford <ford AT vss DOT fsi DOT com>
Subject: Re: inetd desktop interaction w/o console?
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On Sat, 22 Nov 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> On Sat, 22 Nov 2003, Brian Ford wrote:
>
> > I know this has been discussed lots before, but I just spent the last few
> > hours googling, archive searching, trying run.exe, etc. without finding a
> > solid answer.
> >
> > What are the known issues around allowing Cygwin's inetd to interact with
> > the desktop, but without showing the console window?
> >
> > It would be a real nice feature for us to just add that service option
> > and have it work without the distracting console window.  So, I thought
> > I'd ping about the known issues before wasting more hours trying to get it
> > working.
> >
> > In the end, I am expecting to contribute a patch to inetd allowing this if
> > it is reasonably possible.  So, I'm not looking for a handout, just a
> > jumping off point.
> >
> > Thanks.
>
> /usr/X11R6/bin/run.exe
> Also <http://neuro.gatech.edu/users/cwilson/cygutils/run/>.
> HTH,
>         Igor

Oops, forgot to add that this would probably be more useful as a patch to
cygrunsrv (unless you mean running "inetd --install-as-service").
	Igor
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