Larry Hall wrote: > If you allow the service to interact with the desktop, the implication is > that it wants to run something that would be visual on your desktop. It > also has the disadvantage that the service will terminate when the desktop > is closed (i.e. you log out), which is not usually what people expect from > a service. > Allowing a service to interact with the desktop doesn't necessarily mean that it will be terminated when when the user logs out. OTOH I don't understand what the "Cygwin service" is, the OP refers to. It might be the exception that really terminates on user log-off.
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