rxvt ctrl-c killing process

Andy Koppe andy.koppe@gmail.com
Tue Jan 19 18:14:00 GMT 2010


Sven Köhler:
> David Smiley:
>> I have been fed-up with the default GUI shell on Cygwin, being used to the
>> great Terminal that comes with Mac OS X.  Some googling around uncovered
>> that I should try "rxvt".  My experience with rxvt is pretty good, after
>> reading online some basic configuration tips.  But unfortunately I've come
>> across a deal-breaker and I'm not sure exactly what the culprit is.  If I
>> run a java program from rxvt and control-C it (i.e. SIGINT) then it seems to
>> kill -9 it instead of letting the program catch the signal to terminate.  I
>> found a quickie Java code sample online that anyone can quickly compile and
>> try for themselves:  http://waelchatila.com/2006/01/13/1137143896635.html
>> save to CtrlC.java then type "javac CtrlC" then "java -cp . CtrlC"   and
>> then hit ctrl-c.  It works properly in Cygwin's default GUI shell but not
>> rxvt.
>>
>> I *did* try searching the lists but didn't really find a resolution.
>
> Please install mintty (via Cygwin setup).

I'm afraid that won't help with this issue. All a terminal does when
Ctrl+C is pressed is write a ^C character to its pseudo terminal
device (pty), and it's the pty driver that handles it (depending on
the pty's settings): Cygwin processes are sent a SIGINT signal, but
Windows processes such as Java are terminated outright.

Andy

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