--- On Sat, 4/4/09, Matt Wozniski wrote: > From: Matt Wozniski > Subject: Re: Background processes with Cygwin > To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com > Date: Saturday, April 4, 2009, 11:02 PM > http://www.cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR > > On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Peter Farley > wrote: > > > > --- On Fri, 4/3/09, Jeff Irwin wrote: > > Don't quote headers like this. It's not useful to > anyone, and it feeds the spammers. > > >> From: Jeff Irwin > >> Subject: Background processes with Cygwin > >> To: > >> Date: Friday, April 3, 2009, 2:48 PM > > <Snipped> > > http://www.cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTWLL > - Reformatted > > > PMFJI here, but if you log out of Cygwin, then the > > Cygwin process terminates. Why would you think > > that a process started under Cygwin could survive > > the termination of Cygwin? That just doesn't make > > sense, even to this raw newbie. > > You're missing something big. Cygwin isn't a > process. It's a DLL that provides a UNIX-like > environment. You don't terminate cygwin, you > terminate a shell that's using the Unix > emulation provided by cygwin1.dll. > > > Among other things, the whole *ix environment > > that Cygwin provides would be gone, so how could > > your process possibly continue? This isn't "real" > > *ix, it's *ix facilities provided under the > > control of another quite different > > (and generally more hostile) OS environment. > > The *ix facilities are provided by a DLL, not by a > process, and the applications can continue running > after the shell exits, just like in any other > *ix - the DLL didn't go away, after all. > > > Maybe I'm missing something crucial in my > > understanding of how Cygwin and Windows operate. > > If so, I'd appreciate a cure for my ignorance. > > Hopefully this clears things up. Unfortunately, I'm > not sure why things aren't > working for the OP. In any event, switching to the > main cygwin list instead of > the cygwin-xfree list (which is only for X11 related > issues) would probably > help get him the help he needs.
Apologies for both of those trespasses. I didn't look at what yahoo mail was generating. Serves me right for not looking. Mea maxima culpa, and I will check first and fix it in the future. Unfortunately yahoo's web email isn't very bright. And thank you for those explanations. They do help cure my ignorance. Peter -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/