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Re: "setup-x86 --quiet-mode" problems
On 2018-04-22 07:51, Andrey Repin wrote:
>> On Thu 2018-04-19 (17:28), Brian Inglis wrote:
>>> cygstart .../setup-x86 --quiet-mode ... && sleep 1 && kill -9 $$ $PPID
>> Ahh... cygstart does the trick! :-)
>> I was not aware of this helper program. Good to know!
> In this specific case, it is better to use
> cmd /C START "" "$( cygpath -ma ".\\setup-${ARCH}.exe" )" -O -s "${MIRROR%%/}/" $KEYS "$@" &
> So that you detach completely from the cygwin process tree.
That's exactly what cygstart does:
$ cygstart .../setup
$ ps -W | egrep 'COMMAND|setup'
PID PPID PGID WINPID TTY UID STIME COMMAND
7080 0 0 7080 ? 0 10:10:48 C:\...\setup-x86_64.exe
as I use it in a script which kills Cygwin processes after launching setup.
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