Cygwin windows won't close

Thomas Wolff towo@towo.net
Sun Oct 14 04:37:00 GMT 2018


Am 10.10.2018 um 08:37 schrieb Thomas Wolff:
>
> Am 09.10.2018 um 20:46 schrieb Marco Atzeri:
>> Am 09.10.2018 um 19:22 schrieb Ziegelmiller, Lyle(AWF) via cygwin:
>>> Then I don't see much of the cause for such a behavior from Cygwin 
>>> side.
>>> May be other software interfering. Do you have a particularly 
>>> zealous "antivirus", pehaps?
>>>
>>> We're using "Symantec Endpoint Protection", Version 14.
>>>
>>> I could see an anti-virus program preventing the execution of a 
>>> Cygwin window, but not the closing of one.
>>>
>>
>> I have seen Symantec in the past creating such problems.
>> Probably they inject something in the call sequence.
> Which brings me to this suggestions: Please try option 
> ConfirmExit=false, does the behaviour change?
> Thomas
Despite pending response to my diagnostic request, it can well be that 
the start of `ps` to construct the process list shown with the exit 
confirmation has this effect. I've uploaded a patch to avoid it, 
constructing the list internally from /proc, to the mintty repository.
Thomas

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