On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 11:52:23PM +0100, Christian Franke wrote: >Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >>[...] >> >>Yep, so, as CGF noted, try >> >>$ /usr/sbin/syslogd >/dev/null 2>&1 </dev/null >>$ exit > > >That makes no difference. Shell exits but console window persists (at >least on XP SP2) until syslogd is terminated. > >Did you get a different result?
No, you're right. I must have been hallucinating because I can't duplicate the result that I thought I saw previously. Reading the rest of the strace was instructive and I see what the problem is now. I hope to produce a fix soon. Sorry for the misinformation. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/