2007/9/29, Stephen Compall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sat, 2007-09-29 at 16:23 -0300, Cesar Rabak wrote: > > However, after I interact with it a little if I put the focus in any > > other Windows application, gst returns to the operating system or > > saying in other terms: the commad prompt turns back to CMD (e.g. > > C:\>). > > > > Do you have seen anything similar to this? I'm not sure nor from where > > start to debug this! > > Yes, Windows halts (but does not kill) all processes run under a command > prompt when they are out of focus. Oddly, this doesn't apply to Cygwin, > which seems to handle it correctly somehow. The place to start would be > to figure out what Windows does to stop cmd processes in this case and > fix the VM to ignore the signal (or something) on Windows. But first I > would check the Cygwin version to make sure it doesn't happen there on > your system.
I'll need to wait if some other person reading this list has built a Cygwin version and has the same behaviour. > > I learned about that the hard way when trying to run a long installation > process in a background cmd window. :) I'm starting to understand why a lot of programs ported to Windows have their own "shell" while in Linux they just have a toplevel in command line... gst seems to be usable for running scripts and even works integrated with Emacs in Windows. Thanks, -- Cesar Rabak _______________________________________________ help-smalltalk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-smalltalk
