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