On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 06:31:53PM +0200, Thorsten Kampe wrote: >* 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" :-/ ?
i.e., the release announcement. cgf -- 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
