Re: Logging off NT while a bash window is open

Re: Logging off NT while a bash window is open

[John Pollock]

At 12:10 PM 12/22/2000, Weiqi Gao wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have noticed that my bash window (a CMD.EXE window
>running bash) sometimes won't close when I log off my
>NT 4.0 SP6 workstation, causing a dialog to show up
>for me to do a hard kill on the process.

FWIW, there's a registry key of use here:

HKEY_USERS\.Default\Control Panel\Desktop\AutoEndTasks

if this value is set to "1", then processes get hard killed during a logoff.
In other words, the "Wait, End Task, Cancel" box should never show up once
this value is set.

If you want this to work for an existing user, change
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\etc etc instead of HKEY_USERS\Control
Panel\etc etc

Cheers,
John


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Logging off NT while a bash window is open

[Weiqi Gao]

Hi,

I have noticed that my bash window (a CMD.EXE window
running bash) sometimes won't close when I log off my
NT 4.0 SP6 workstation, causing a dialog to show up
for me to do a hard kill on the process.

This does not happen all the time.  But it does happen
under certain circumstances.  I haven't figured out
what these circumstances are yet.  But I have a
feeling that running vim or NTEmacs would cause it to
happen, but I'm not sure.


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Re: Logging off NT while a bash window is open

[Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)]

At 12:10 PM 12/22/2000, Weiqi Gao wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have noticed that my bash window (a CMD.EXE window
>running bash) sometimes won't close when I log off my
>NT 4.0 SP6 workstation, causing a dialog to show up
>for me to do a hard kill on the process.
>
>This does not happen all the time.  But it does happen
>under certain circumstances.  I haven't figured out
>what these circumstances are yet.  But I have a
>feeling that running vim or NTEmacs would cause it to
>happen, but I'm not sure.
>
>
>=====
>Weiqi Gao
>weiqigao@yahoo.com



This happens to me since day-one of using Cygwin (at least 4 years ago) so 
if you see it only sometimes, you're lucky!;-)  AFAIK, the reason is because
the Cywgin processes (or is it somehow just related to bash?) don't respond 
to the logoff notification.  I remember talk about this on the mail list 
from long ago.  The result was to leave things "as-is", since there was 
some concern that a change would cause other problems.  If you're interested,
check the mail archives and ferret around in the code a bit to see what you
can come up with.  I find it a small annoyance myself but, as you can see,
I haven't let it slow me down over the years!;-)



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RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
118 Washington Street                   (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
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Re: Logging off NT while a bash window is open

[Stephen C. Biggs]

What's weird about this is that you don't have to do a hard kill if you 
wait long enough (2 minutes??)... it will then close by itself.  What is 
it waiting for?  It is possible that all the times that I have had this 
occurrence, I have run vim...

On 22 Dec 2000, at 9:10, Weiqi Gao wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have noticed that my bash window (a CMD.EXE window
> running bash) sometimes won't close when I log off my
> NT 4.0 SP6 workstation, causing a dialog to show up
> for me to do a hard kill on the process.
> 
> This does not happen all the time.  But it does happen
> under certain circumstances.  I haven't figured out
> what these circumstances are yet.  But I have a
> feeling that running vim or NTEmacs would cause it to
> happen, but I'm not sure.
> 
> 
> =====
> Weiqi Gao
> weiqigao@yahoo.com
> 
> 
> 
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