How do I shut down Cygwin cleanly?

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

john.hunter@utas.edu.au wrote:
> Thanks Larry, but I'm loath to waste space on this and other lists, and also
> people's time by listing any of the knock-on effects of not terminating all
> Cygwin processes (and resetting locks etc.) prior to firing up Cygwin again -
> it seems reasonable to me that these effects would exist (I've experienced
> them) but it also seems largely irrelevant to my present question to discuss
> them. This is not a bug report - it is a "howto" request.
> 
> So I'll summarise my original post into a single question:
> 
> When running the latest version of Cygwin on Windows XP, what is the best simple
> way of terminating all Cygwin processes, and resetting XP to effectively the
> same state as it was before Cygwin was started?

It depends on what you're running.  If you've just started a Cygwin shell or
shells, exiting them is enough.  If you have a Cygwin service or services
running, then you must stop them (with 'cygrunsrv --stop' or 'net stop').
If you have X running, you must exit X (typically through the menu on the
X taskbar item).  If you have a combination of these running, then you
must do some combination of them.  This will return you to a state where
cygwin1.dll is not loaded anymore, which is the same process state
relative to Cygwin as you were before you started any of them.


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A: Yes.
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