rxvt ctrl-c killing process

[David Smiley @MITRE.org]

Mintty is even better (thanks Sven) but suffers from the same problem as Andy
is pointing out.  It's odd that when using Cygwin's default terminal
(whatever that thing is) that ctrl-C works there but not in mintty.  Any
work-arounds/alternatives?

~ David


Andy Koppe wrote:
> 
> 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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