On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 08:29:05PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >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.
I'm uploading a snapshot which should fix the problem when CYGWIN=notty. The console will stay attached when CYGWIN=tty, however, and I can't convince myself that this is good behavior. I'll look at that more tomorrow. 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/
