* Corinna Vinschen (Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:38:54 +0200) > On Aug 10 14:15, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > > * Corinna Vinschen (Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:34:25 +0200) > > > On Aug 10 12:57, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > > > > I upgraded to Windows 7 on Sunday and now whenever cron runs a job, > > > > the new forked cron process is visible in a console window. I > > > > suspect that this might be related to the new "Console Window Host" > > > > (conhost.exe) as I also get this window when I run screen inside a > > > > shell. > > > > > > Cygwin 1.5.25, I presume. Cygwin 1.5.25 is not supported under W7. Use > > > Cygwin 1.7 instead. It contains workarounds for a few really incredible > > > bugs introduced in Windows 7 in terms of console windows. I reported two > > > of them in the beta testing phase. One of them has been only partially > > > fixed (and introduced a new one in the W7 32 bit), the other one hasn't > > > been fixed at all in RTM. > > > > Thanks for the insight and background information. I'll probably wait > > until 1.7 is out of beta and an "official" migration document is > > released. > > What "official" migration document? There will be a release announcment > and that's it.
Something like "how to move from 1.5 to 1.7". Or will it be an automatic process done via (and by) Setup.exe? Or will we have to do a "fresh install" :-/ ? Thorsten -- 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
