Positive and negative results with cygserver.exe

Robert Collins robert.collins@itdomain.com.au
Sun Jan 13 02:08:00 GMT 2002


----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g.r.vansickle@worldnet.att.net>
> Running cygserver from an rxvt/bash prompt works, cygserver sits and
looks like
> it's waiting for "connections" or whatever.  However, it blocks a new
rxvt/bash
> prompt from coming up (looks like rxvt itself is blocked halfway
through drawing
> the screen, eg. scrollbar looks like it started to get drawn).  I'm
using this
> in the shortcut:

Not surprising! Cygserver is a native exe that should not be run from
within cygwin.

It probably could be hacked around to do so, but I don't see any real
point :}.

Rob



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