MinTTY
Andy Koppe
andy.koppe@gmail.com
Tue Dec 30 23:00:00 GMT 2008
Robert Pendell wrote:
> I modified cygwin.bat to execute mintty.
> Looks like mintty doesn't detach completely on it's own
Yep, that's a known issue (number 4 in the issue tracker), and I haven't
yet worked out how to do this properly. I've tried closing files 0
through 3 and doing a setsid(), but that's not sufficient. Hints on how
to detach properly would be much appreciated.
> I appended
> 'start' to the beginning to it. The program will continue to run but
> the black box will disappear. If start doesn't work then use 'cygstart'
> instead as that one is supplied by cygwin. Basically the last line of
> cygwin.bat was changed to show as...
>
> start mintty bash --login -i
Thanks! That's a good workaround.
Andy
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