Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3DD39FF8.B34FE965@yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 08:07:04 -0500 From: CBFalconer Reply-To: cbfalconer@worldnet.att.net Organization: Ched Research X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: /bin/shutdown on ME References: <20021114102127.E10395@cygbert.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 09:29:18PM -0600, Chris Polley wrote: > > > > When I try to "shutdown -r now", Windows (ME 4.90.3000) complains > > that I "must quit [shutdown] before I quit Windows." If I click > > Cancel, shutdown complains "shutdown: Couldn't reboot: Incorrect > > function.", and if I click OK, windows reports after a while that > > shutdown isn't responding, and gives the Wait/End Task/Cancel > > dialog. :-( > > > > Is this a known limitation of cygwin on ME, or should I delve > > further? > > It's a limitation of the shutdown tool. It only works reasonably on > NT/2K/XP. Patches to get it working on 9x/Me are more than welcome. Under W98/4dos I do a command line shutdown using the alias: c:\windows\rundll.exe user.exe,exitwindows -- Chuck F (cbfalconer@yahoo.com) (cbfalconer@worldnet.att.net) Available for consulting/temporary embedded and systems. USE worldnet address! -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/