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Re: Mintty Log Off problem (now 1.7.16s)


On May 30 11:58, Ryan Johnson wrote:
> On 30/05/2012 11:52 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On May 29 12:41, 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:
> >>>>Ryan Johnson wrote:
> >>>>>I routinely encounter mintty windows that don't close after
> >>>>>I exit the login shell they run (even though they contain no
> >>>>>visible child processes), but they can still be closed using
> >>>>>the big red "X" in the corner... your problem sounds like
> >>>>>something more sinister.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Ryan
> >>>>>
> >>>>There is never an "X" to deal with here.  One never know there is
> >>>>a problem until he does start->Log Off to log out of windows.
> >>>>
> >>>>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.  This was fixed once in a snapshot of 1.7.10, but
> >>>>has since returned with 1.7.15.  In this incarnation it seems to
> >>>>occur whenever I've run a Cygwin X app from a mintty window.
> >>>>If I've signed on in Windows and never run a Cygwin X app it
> >>>>generally doesn't happen, but I can't be sure it never happens.
> >>>>Every time I've run a Cygwin X app though I can expect to see
> >>>>it after closing (apparently normally) all mintty windows and
> >>>>then log off of Windows.
> >>>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.  When the problem first
> >>appeared in 1.7.10 and I posted about it, a few days later I got a
> >>suggestion to try the latest 1.7.11s snapshot and see if that fixed it.
> >>  It did, I haven't had the problem since until 1.7.15 and 1.7.16s.
> >>
> >>This isn't a show stopper, especially since in this incantation it
> >>doesn't happen all the time, however something isn't quite right...
> >>Interesting the Cygwin X apps aggravate the problem.
> >Can you try to find out which snapshot introduced the problem?
> Perhaps figuring out which snapshot between 1.7.10 and 1.7.11 fixed
> it would be faster? It sounds like he didn't go very long between 10
> and [some] 11s. Not sure it would be as enlightening, though,

If the code in question has changed a lot, it's only marginally helpful
to refer to a change in older code.  OTOH, knowing both, which snapshot
"fixed" it and which snapshot broke it again could be valuable.


Corinna

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