On 05/30/12 12:37, Andy Koppe wrote: > On 29 May 2012 19:41, Harry G McGavran Jr wrote: >> >> >> On 05/29/12 12:31, Andy Koppe wrote: >>> On 29 May 2012 17:17, Harry G McGavran Jr wrote: >>> Do I understand you correctly that you no longer have any mintty >>> windows open when this happens? That's puzzling indeed. Have you >>> looked at ye olde Big List Of Dodgy Applications? >>> >>> http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda >>> >>> Andy >> >> Yes, your understanding is correct. My bloda spectrum hasn't >> changed since 1.7.10 and is pretty well in hand. > > That doesn't exclude a BLODA problem. It's entirely possible that a > dodgy app gets away with whatever it's doing with one Cygwin version, > but fails with the next. > >>>> I can normally close any/all mintty windows and then with various >>>> process explorers try to find a mintty process and never find any. >>>> Then when I log out of Windows, Windows claims it has to close >>>> mintty.exe. > > Are you invoking mintty as administrator and looking at the process > lists without administrator rights? Otherwise this just defies > explanation, short of something messing with the Windows kernel, which > Cygwin (being a user-space DLL) doesn't do. > > Andy
This is with Windows XP SP3. I am in the administrator group, but I don't invoke mintty as administrator, only as I normally run as me, but I am in the administrator group. It's not impossible that is bloda, but it is odd that it comes and goes with various cygwin releases then. It clearly started when I upgraded to 1.7.10, and clearly disappeared with the 1.7.11s snapshot and then clearly appeared again with 1.7.15. Harry -- Harry G. McGavran, Jr. E-mail: w5...@w5pny.com -- 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