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From: Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: broken CTRL-BREAK handling
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 09:56:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010718125553.E15332@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8F23E55D511AD5119A6800D0B76FDDE1CA2EF5@cpex3.channelpoint.com>

On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 10:32:35AM -0600, Troy Noble wrote:
>Bottom line... that still feels broken to me if the intent is for
>cygwin (more specifically, the bash shell running with cygwin) to
>be able to launch/stop native win32 apps with the same semantics one
>has come to expect when running cmd shell.
>If that's not the goal, then it's a non-issue.

I don't think that that has ever been a stated goal for cygwin.

What would a program, ported from UNIX expect in this situation?  With
your patch, I believe that it would just unceremoniously terminate with
no way to handle cleanup other than to add windows-specific code for
dealing with ctrl-break.

cgf

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  reply	other threads:[~2001-07-18  9:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-07-18  9:32 Troy Noble
2001-07-18  9:56 ` Christopher Faylor [this message]
2001-07-18 16:36 ` Michael A. Chase
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-07-18 16:48 Karr, David
2001-07-18 14:01 Troy Noble
2001-07-18 13:42 Heribert Dahms
2001-07-18 12:55 Troy Noble
2001-07-17 13:50 Troy Noble
2001-07-17 19:55 ` Christopher Faylor
2001-07-17 13:25 Puttkammer, Roman
2001-07-17 14:10 ` Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
2001-07-17 15:38   ` Michael Schaap
2001-07-17 13:06 Troy Noble
2001-07-17 13:15 ` Christopher Faylor
2001-07-17 13:28   ` Christopher Faylor
2001-07-17 12:00 Troy Noble
2001-07-17 12:37 ` Christopher Faylor

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