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Re: what's left for 1.5.0


On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 04:34:29PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>I discussed this with Chris already back in July 2001 and he refused
>to remove that code with the rationale that a daemon shouldn't have a
>console associated with the process and so the problem isn't how to
>handle CTRL_SHUTDOWN_EVENT but how to completely disassociate the daemon
>from a console window, which has its point.

I don't remember the discussion but I have to say that it seems wrong to
me that a cygwin program should be receiving a signal-like event that it
ignores.

However, that said, if we don't hear from Kazuhiro Fujieda within the next
24 hours, go ahead and remove the code.

cgf


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