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Re: How do I shut down Cygwin cleanly?
- From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:42:59 -0500
- Subject: Re: How do I shut down Cygwin cleanly?
- References: <Pine.CYG.4.58.0901151022060.27524@mondo>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
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.
> Q: Are you sure?
>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
>>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?
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