How do I shut down Cygwin cleanly?

2009-01-14 Thread johunter
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

Re: How do I shut down Cygwin cleanly?

2009-01-14 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
johun...@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

Re: How do I shut down Cygwin cleanly?

2009-01-14 Thread john . hunter
Thanks Larry, but I'm loath to waste space on this and other lists, and also people's time by listing any of the knock-on effects of not terminating all Cygwin processes (and resetting locks etc.) prior to firing up Cygwin again - it seems reasonable to me that these effects would exist (I've

Re: How do I shut down Cygwin cleanly?

2009-01-14 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
john.hun...@utas.edu.au wrote: Thanks Larry, but I'm loath to waste space on this and other lists, and also people's time by listing any of the knock-on effects of not terminating all Cygwin processes (and resetting locks etc.) prior to firing up Cygwin again - it seems reasonable to me that

Re: How do I shut down Cygwin cleanly?

2009-01-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:37:09AM +1100, john.hun...@utas.edu.au wrote: Thanks Larry, but I'm loath to waste space on this and other lists, and also people's time by listing any of the knock-on effects of not terminating all Cygwin processes (and resetting locks etc.) prior to firing up Cygwin