ctrl-c in rxvt

Rick Rankin rick_rankin@yahoo.com
Fri Sep 12 04:54:00 GMT 2003


--- Christopher Faylor <cgf-rcm@cygwin.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 05:32:03PM -0700, Rick Rankin wrote:
> >--- Christopher Faylor <cgf-rcm@cygwin.com> wrote:
> >>On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 04:02:22PM -0700, Patrick Peralta wrote:
> >>>I installed Cygwin a few days ago on Windows XP along with rxvt 2.7.10.
> >>>It works great except for ctrl-c when trying to break out of certain
> >>>programs (such as ping).  It works under the regular DOS-window bash
> >>>but it is ignored under rxvt.  This also happens if I sssh into the
> >>>box.  Am I missing a configuration somewhere?
> >>
> >>Native windows apps could have a problem with CTRL-C.  Cygwin apps work
> >>fine.  There is no workaround for this.
> >
> >Using ctrl-c with ping, however, worked fine (for me, anyway) on 1.3.x.
> >I just noticed this a couple of days ago with 1.5.3 when I ran a 'ping
> >-t' command then couldn't stop it.  No change with the 9/10 snapshot.
> >Was I just lucky before?
> 
> Since there are just two or three developers in cygwin, and no one else
> seems willing to pitch in to debug problems like this, I suppose that luck
> is as good an explanation as any.
> 
> We can't get decent bug reports without begging, so, just feel lucky
> that the system works at all.

Well, let me see what I can do...

--Rick

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