From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: How do I shut down Cygwin cleanly?
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:17:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <496E1130.1090106@cygwin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200901141224.n0ECOdPw015046@corinna.its.utas.edu.au>
johunter@postoffice.utas.edu.au wrote:
> I can find no recent discussion of how to cleanly shut down Cygwin - by
> this I mean shutting down all Cygwin processes, but not the Windows
> operating system (in my case XP). Not cleanly shutting down Cygwin
> processes tends to invoke Windows error messages on starting up Cygwin (I
> use the X startup script startxwin.bat) and sometimes a failure to
> generate an X-window from startxwin.bat (which then has to be called
> again - generally successfully). "Shutting down" Cygwin by just closing
> all Cygwin windows does not seem to be a satisfactory option - other
> things are clearly going on in the background.
If your question really is directed just at Cygwin-X, you're probably
better off sending it to the cygwin-xfree list. If you're experiencing
issues beyond that of X, then it would be helpful to anyone here who can
help to list those issues.
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A: Yes.
> Q: Are you sure?
>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
>>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-14 16:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-14 16:24 johunter
2009-01-14 17:17 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin) [this message]
2009-01-15 0:08 john.hunter
2009-01-15 0:33 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2009-01-15 3:39 ` Christopher Faylor
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