On 2018-04-19 10:31, Ulli Horlacher wrote: > I have an update script which calls "setup-x86 --quiet-mode". > So far, this works great, but now it tries to install a new mintty.exe, > but one mintty still running (where I started setup-x86), so setup-x86 > kills this process... and setup-x86.exe is killed, too, which resulted in > a damaged cygwin installation :-( > I was able to fix it by running setup-x86.exe via Windows Explorer (puhhhh!). > How can I avoid this kind of problem in the future? > I tried it with: > setup-x86 --quiet-mode & > sleep 1 > kill -9 $PPID > But setup-x86 was killed again, too.
cygstart .../setup-x86 --quiet-mode ... && sleep 1 && kill -9 $$ $PPID -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
