Shell not responding to ctrl+c

Larry Hall lh-no-personal-replies-please@cygwin.com
Mon Aug 1 17:02:00 GMT 2005


At 08:07 AM 8/1/2005, you wrote:
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>According to Mike Chiussi on 7/31/2005 9:58 PM:
>> Recently my harddrive failed and I had to rebuild everything
>> (including cygwin, so all old settings are gone) but for some reason
>> with this most recent version, the shell (Bash) does not terminate any
>> processes when ctrl+c is pressed.
>
>Are you running in a Windows console?  And if so, have you turned on the
>CYGWIN=tty setting?


As cgf has noted in the past, the tty setting in CYGWIN should not be 
necessary for proper ctrl+c handling in the Windows console.  And indeed
I have verified that ctrl+c works for me in the Windows console without
setting tty.


>Hint - we'd already know that if you attach the cygcheck output, as
>requested here:
>> Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html


And, as always, this is good advice. :-)



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