Suspend doesn't work in cmd

[Andrey Repin]

Greetings, Kacper Michajlow!

> On Mon, 18 May 2020 at 05:06, Takashi Yano wrote:

>> On Sun, 17 May 2020 19:57:15 +0200
>> Kacper Michajlow wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Control keys doesn't seem to be working correctly under cmd.
>> >
>> > STR:
>> > 1. Run bash in cmd.exe
>> > 2. Run anything, in my case "seq 1 100000"
>> > 3. Try to suspend job with CTRL+Z or suspend printing with CTRL+S
>> >
>> > Ii will ignore request. Works in mintty, doesn't in cmd.
>>
>> Thanks for the report. This is a known problem, however,
>> it is hard to fix soon.
>>
>> In current console implementation, ctrl-Z is processed in
>> read() system call. So, if process does not call read(),
>> ctlr-Z does not work.
>>
>> You can confirm that ctrl-Z works for cat, od, etc. which
>> calls read().
>>
>> One solution might be to introduce a thread to handle the
>> keystrokes. I wonder if it is worth enough to introduce such
>> a big modification for console code.
>>

> Thanks for explanation. I report those bugs, because I kind of hope to get
> away from mintty and use something like Windows Terminal for all envs. But
> it doesn't look feasible for Cygwin.

Why not use mintty instead? :D


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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Tuesday, May 19, 2020 17:15:05

Sorry for my terrible english...