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

[Thomas Wolff]

Am 24.11.2020 um 21:22 schrieb Kevin Schnitzius via Cygwin:
> 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.
This is a wrong statement. For a terminal, Ctrl+c is just a control 
character, nothing else. It's the pty device, shell or application that 
may, or may not, associate it with specific handling like interruption.

>    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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