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From: Thomas Wolff <towo@towo.net>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Avoid sending SIGINT to native child process?
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2017 17:30:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e28e883a-fd20-e761-0a4e-cc58ae6bd784@towo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c9aab181-aa6d-f724-9f1e-2497b16609f6@acm.org>

Am 29.04.2017 um 04:33 schrieb David Rothenberger:
> Is there any way to prevent a SIGINT signal from propagating to a 
> background child Windows process?
>
> I'm trying to write a script to start a Java application server. I 
> want the script to trap Ctrl-C and send the app server a command to 
> shutdown cleanly, but it appears the Ctrl-C is immediately propagated 
> to the Java process, even though the script traps it.
Signal handling interoperability is lacking more generally.
Even SIGTSTP is propagated in such a way that the Windows application is 
terminated.
(Try running notepad from bash, then type Ctrl-Z.)
Thomas

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      reply	other threads:[~2017-04-29  6:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-30 13:12 David Rothenberger
2017-04-30 17:30 ` Thomas Wolff [this message]

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