Control-C now propagates to child processes

David Arnstein arnstein@pobox.com
Tue May 17 08:19:00 GMT 2005


Here is a behavior that I believe began with the cygwin updates of 
2005-05-16.

I launch a cygwin command window running the bash shell.  From there, I 
run "startxwin.sh."  Yes, this is a X11 launcher, but please bear with 
me.  I think this is a core cygwin issue, not a cygwin/X11 issue.

As a result of executing startwin.sh, an xterm window appears.  It also 
runs the bash shell.  Now I have two windows showing: the original 
cygwin command window, and an xterm window.

If I type control-c into the original cygwin command window, then the 
xterm window gets the interrupt, along with the original cygwin command 
window.  Programs running in both windows get terminated.

I looked into startxwin.sh. The way this shell launches xterm is
	xterm -e /usr/bin/bash -l &

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