[PATCH] Ctrl-C and non-Cygwin programs

Ryan Johnson ryan.johnson@cs.utoronto.ca
Thu Mar 29 03:24:00 GMT 2012


On 28/03/2012 10:55 PM, Ein Terakawa wrote:
> Lastly first third of the patch is a workaround of a problem observed
> with cygwin1.dll of cvs HEAD.
> To reproduce:
> 1. Launch a terminal emulator like rxvt or mintty.
> 2. Execute cmd.exe or more.com from shell prompt.
> 3. Type in Enter, Ctrl-C, then Enter again.
> Whole processes including the terminal emulator will just hung up.
Interesting... I may have just hit this earlier today trying to run a
Java program inside mintty. I assumed it was just Java being weird,
since killing it releases the terminal.

I'll try to build a cygwin1.dll with the patch, but my source tree seems
to be in a bad state so it could be a while.

Ryan



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