I've "developed" an insignificant patch to cron (attached) that makes cron
detach from the console before forking out (under Cygwin only). The patch
is against the current release's source and WFM.
In fact, my "problem" was that when starting cron from the "startup
programs", a console window stuck around. This fixes that.
HTH
rlc
diff -burp cron-3.0.1-9-orig/cron.c cron-3.0.1-9/cron.c
--- cron-3.0.1-9-orig/cron.c 2003-06-03 10:16:36.000000000 +0200
+++ cron-3.0.1-9/cron.c 2003-06-03 10:20:18.000000000 +0200
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ static const char rcsid[] = "$Id: cron.c
#include "cron.h"
#ifdef __CYGWIN__
+#include <windows.h>
#include <signal.h>
#else
#include <sys/signal.h>
@@ -98,6 +99,10 @@ main(argc, argv)
# endif
(void) fprintf(stderr, "[%d] cron started\n", getpid());
} else {
+#if __CYGWIN__
+ // RLC 2003-06-03 Detach from console
+ FreeConsole();
+#endif
switch (fork()) {
case -1:
log_it("CRON",getpid(),"DEATH","can't fork");
--
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