Can't start a cygwin terminal(mintty) as admin

Kevin Schnitzius kometes@yahoo.com
Tue Nov 24 20:22:03 GMT 2020


On Tuesday, November 24, 2020, 07:52:11 AM EST, akikij@free.fr <akikij@free.fr> wrote:

> QUESTION 1 : HOW TO NOW HANDLE CTRL-C in a multi threaded cygwin application regarless of terminal
Ctrl-c is broken on mintty.  I use this:
    D:\cygwin64\bin\mintty.exe -o "KeyFunctions=A+F5:break" -

And use alt-F5 as a break that works on both Cygwin and non-Cygwin processes.
> QUESTION 2 : HOW TO LAUNCH A MINTTY SESSION AS ADMIN

cygstart --action=runas mintty.exe

Kevin 



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