More on Job Control...

[Robert Collins]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf@redhat.com>
To: "Cygwin" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 3:05 AM
Subject: Re: More on Job Control...


> On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 12:46:46PM -0700, Mark Allan Young wrote:
> >
> >if I don't use the '&' and then try to suspend it
> >with <ctrl-z>, it doesn't suspend.
>
> A .bat file is not a cygwin application.  Cygwin isn't a special magic
> program that brings UNIX functionality to everything on your system.
> CTRL-Z will only work on Cygwin applications.
>
> cgf
>

Hmmm, I wonder. Chris: if we can save the process and main thread handle
for the child, on Ctrl-Z we could call SuspendThread. I'm happy to
fiddle around with this (in about 3 weeks :]) unless you think it's a
bad idea.

Rob


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